I don’t talk about gear all that much, but this one goes out to you camera geeks and gearheads. So many of you have been asking about the array of cameras I’m shooting while living in NYC (and somewhat in line with yesterday’s post) we decided to whip up a quick Chase Jarvis TECH video to run you through them. Ten formats in all, from top of the line Nikons, to old Polaroids, even some vintage stuff from the 1950’s. Check it.
[And, as you might imagine, I’m burning through a bunch film while I’m experimenting with all these toys during Dasein: Invitation To Hang. As such I want to say huge thanks to B&H, Polaroid, Fuji, and the Impossible Project for backing me with film for this adventure. You can pickup any/all the tasty films I mention in the vid here from B&H, except for The Impossible Project stuff, which is best to get here…and, update, is made in the Netherlands, correction from what I said in the vid 😉 ]
Seeing this makes me want to dig through a pile of old boxes for my old Canon AV-1 and load some film … loading film is like riding a bike, right?
Love it! And love that you rock Polaroid (one of my wife’s cameras), the D7000 (my camera) and Fuji x100 (my desired next camera)!
Really cool stuff you’re working with.
love your enthusiasm Chase, got to, you’re inspiring.
BUT::::
you’re burning through all kinds of disposables… polaroids, backing papers, chemicals down the drain at labs, all into the landfill and new york harbor.
that part’s not so cool.
on the other hand, if it’s not that it’s toxic metals etc in all the electronics it takes to make digital products.
chase, baby, are we doomed?
hs. great point. I try to be as sensitive toward the environment as my profession allows. i’m not shooting kodachrome – supposedly the most toxic of the film processes. and fwiw, that’s a good thing about the polaroid gl10 printer that we’re using to print the dasein show – zero ink cartridges ever…uses thermal printing.
i stopped oil painting in part because it’s so toxic, so I’m open to your suggestions of how to be a photographer and not a sketch artist…
The same can be said of all the computers, camera gear, and such, which ends up in dumps in China, where they go in a recycle it. Very toxic though.
The answer is to keep a piece of gear until it is no longer working, then have it recycled. Or, use a film camera, develop the negatives, then scan them instead of printing. There will be waste no matter what you do.
More TECH!