Geek Out

This Negative Image Will Melt Your Brain

Want to add more wrinkles to that ol’ brain of yours? Stare at the coloured dots on the girl’s nose in the photo above for 30 seconds. Then look at a white surface (blank browser, mayhaps) and start blinking. You should see a non-negative image of the girl. WHAT. BRAIN. MELTING. WHAT. OHMYGOD.


August 3, 2010
Cameras

Those $US200m Ansel Adams Garage Sale Photos? Yeah, They’re Fake

Oops! Turns out the negatives found at a garage sale that were purported to be lost Ansel Adams snaps worth $US200 million were actually taken by somebody’s Uncle Earle. Still, nice eye, Uncle Earle. [Petapixel via Animal via Daily What]


July 28, 2010
Cameras

$US45 Yard Sale Find Turns Out To Be $US200m Worth Of Ansel Adams Photos

Rick Norsigian found a couple of boxes full of glass negatives at a yard sale and bought them for $US45, negotiated down from $US70, 10 years ago. Now he’s discovered that they’re early photographs of Ansel Adams worth $US200 million.


July 14, 2010
Cameras

Scan Your Old Negatives DIY Style, Using A DSLR, Toilet Paper Rolls

We didn’t always have digital cameras, and those negatives still laying at the bottom of some dusty drawer are proof. Now you can easily and affordably digitise those memories.


September 30, 2008
Cameras

RedScale Film Shows Analogue Photography Is Not Dead Yet, Thankfully

Leave it to the crazy Lomography heads to keep the flame of analogue photography alive and kicking in this cold digital world of ours, like an ’80s top-of-the-charts song always resisting to die: Their new RedScale Negative 100 film gives a vision of the world in intense reds, smooth oranges oranges, and mellow yellows look to all your analogue photographs, but also having highlights in other colours, which appear in an unpredictable way.