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"After the successful shooting on 21 July 1969, the Hasselblad was hoisted up to the lunar lander with a line. Securely removing the film magazines, both cameras with lenses were left behind on the Moon in order to meet narrow weight margins for successful return. The journeys home from the Moon made very special demands on what could return regarding weight; from Apollo 11 to the final Apollo 17 mission, a total of twelve camera bodies were left behind on the lunar surface. Only the film magazines containing the momentous images were brought back. The resulting photographs captured the history of humanity in the making."
Jun 3, 2024
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Mar 22, 2024
Hereโs a piece of photography history I always like to talk about:
I own a Pentax 67 medium format film camera and one of the best lenses ever made for it is the SMC Takumar 50mm f1.4. This lens is (in)famous due to its amazing depth of field, image clarity, and it being a radioactive thorium glass lens! Pentax and other manufacturers in the 1960โs used thorium oxide in glass optics to improve image/optical quality (which it does).The amount of radiation emitted (beta and gamma rays) varies but averages about 7.7 uSv/hr, or about 1.41 dental x-rayโs worth of radiation, which average about 5.5 uSv/hr. Here is an excellent video that explains more about these interesting thorium glass lenses.
Jan 21, 2025
Is half the fun of film -- I was DELIGHTED when I got this one back. Olympus OM-1
Sep 22, 2024
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The perfect lil snack for when you donโt want a big snack
Apr 3, 2024
Here it is, folks! Volume I of what could very well be a continuous project. Thank you so much to everyone that submitted - I smiled the entire time I was putting this together. It's best listened to with headphones โบ๏ธ
Liner Notes:
This collection of field recordings is a collaborative effort with users of PI.FYI, each of which recorded their own pieces. It features audio from all over the world and exhibits eclectic moments from London Underground commutes to cuckoo bird calls in Dhaka to the sounds of a century-old American diner.
Online communities like PI.FYI often represent a diverse set of people, places, and experiences, but together, the submissions form a living collage that highlights the commonalities of modern life - a unifying message for such a tumultuous time. The first track features all of the sounds played at once in an attempt to create an audio snapshot of an online community but in their offline lives.
The individual recordings are unedited except for minor gain and compression adjustments for consistency across the collection.
Mar 29, 2025
