Photoclub Alpha

Photoworld 2008 #2 is now being mailed to subscribers!

Our Spring edition features -

Daniel Oi - who provided our most popular external link in recent weeks with his Glasgow Merchant City surround-vision stitched VR panorama - has created a superb view of the Kibble Palace glasshouse at Glasgow’s Botanical Gardens:

Daniel Oi is a dedicated and experienced Alpha system user currently staying in Glasgow. He’s created a particularly impressive 360 degree panorama of a tiny area of the city centre which has unexpected magic in its Christmas lighting garb. Go down Buchanan Street, turn towards George Square, and you will walk through this Georgian enclave with street cafés, galleries, bookstore, museum and an atmosphere quite unlike the busy main drag or the vast square it links.

http://cnqo.phys.strath.ac.uk/~daniel/Panos/MerchantCity.mov 

This is well worth a visit!

- David

IN 1998 Minolta published, for their 70th anniversary, a large poster featuring all the landmark cameras from their own museum and employee collections. Many of the cameras shown - all fairly small on the poster - were well used and worn examples. The original image-files for the poster, which we have archived, are of poor quality. They are Japanese inkset CMYK sharpened for pre-press, with very dark gamma. This page re-creates all the information from the original poster, complete with the photographs.