Photographer Michael Shindler of PhotoboothSF brought his medium format camera and gear to this years 99% Conference and captured portraits of its speakers in vintage TinType glory. By using a lens with an extremely shallow depth of field and surrounding his subjects in light the resulting images (shown below) are breathtaking.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the tintype process at PhotoboothSF

Via the99percent & coolhunting

Here’s an awesome and fun little camera animation by Antonio Vicentini , with illustrations by Billy Brown and music by Ben Hantoot.

Via @designrelated

TIME ZERO (debuting this month) is a documentary film that chronicles the passionate efforts of a small team of photographers who tried to keep instant photography alive. One of our favorite instant film photographers Grant Hamilton is the man behind the project and we couldn’t be happier that the movie is finally ready.

Details:

World Premiere: INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012
@ 12:30PM

Somerville Theatre, Screen 1
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144
For tickets and info:
www.iffboston.org/2012/index.php

via Azuree Wiitala (@xo_azuree) (@TIMEZEROmovie)

If you’re a vintage camera lover like us, you’ll love PrismYard. It’s a fun tumblr/pinterest style site where you can pick the kind of cameras you’re interested in seeing and a whole stream of images is ready to stroll through. It’s relatively new, so there aren’t thousands of images on there yet, but it’s still inspiring site. If you’ve got a collection you want to show the world, they’re accepting submissions.

The principles are the same, but wow how things have changed.

Via @Adam_doyle

The Philadelphia-based Design duo The Heads of State have created some prints exclusively for sale on Fab and this Camera print (8×10) is available now for $14. Get yours today!

If you’ve ever wanted to know about photography and camera history, The George Eastman House museum has a ridiculously drool worthy collection of cameras. In this video, Todd Gustavson, (the curator) talks about the Museum’s awesome new book, 500 Cameras: 170 Years of Photographic Innovation.

via iso1200

Photographer Jason Hull has creatively repurposed non-working vintage cameras of the 50s-60s into nightlights for his house. We’re pretty sure we want some. (When they’re available online, we’ll let you know too.)

via PetaPixel

Here’s a cool look back at “How film is Made” a 1958 Kodak factory documentary.

Note: It’s in Dutch with English subtitles.

via laughingsquid