Meu nome Carla Bispo nós publicamos uma matéria juntos na NG sobre hip hop (abril/2007).
A diferença entre nós é que aprendo muito com suas imagens.

Boa sorte e um grande abraço!

Parabéns pela página.

Carla Bispo

I use a Nikon coolscan 5000 ED. It is very good for slides but I found it not so good with negative strips. I think a flat bed scanner is better for that. I’ve used the coolscan 50 also and it is also good. If you have the money I’d go for the 5000.

I had read stories about the Nikon not being reliable at times, but I don’t really have any problems. Mine has frozen a couple of times but what digital equipment doesn’t in its life time.

I have a friend who scans medium format on a Epson and he likes it.

I think either one would be good for you.

My grandfather was Polish. My name is nothing like yours, but even mine gets pronounced in different ways now and again.

I might just be in touch with you about Poland one day.

Best,

Justin

1. I need advice about scanner because I Don’t know witch one buy
Nikon Coolscan V LS-50 ED
or
Epson 4990, 4870
and maybe someone used and will know.
I still have not idea witch one choose.
This is very easy question. Is’nt it?

2. I subscribe myselve “martin”, not “marcin” because polish language is very dificoult (like chinese) and foreigners (for me) must practise to pronounce my name. And my both names is just tortures for them.

3. Panos i’m little tired that you are so much negative to everything and everyone, so I’m truly sorry that i waste your value time.
peace

In wroclaw. Nice to see that sombody on the world want to learn polish langage. I’m Impressed.
:)
I love what you wrote in your blog “about me”.
great works. Keep going!

Posted by: Marcin | February 10, 2008 at 04:08 PM…”

PANOS SAYS:
What’s so impressive Marcin???

Look at Ryan’s skills… he speaks GREEK, GERMAN, SPANISH , ENGLISH, GERMAN, DEMONOID1, AZUREUS2,… CZECH…and lately he started… RUSSIAN… just to read DOSTOYFSKI… what do i know!???

and , by the way , why do you ask about scanners… advice…?
and why do you waste everyone’s time by asking that crap…
if you already decided… or bought what you wanted?
Dude, TIME, is valuable over here????
Pleazseee, get involved… or go use the scanner you just bought…

seriously RYAN and MARCIN?:…, what’s so impressive about speaking more than one tongue?????
Its a survival… thing ….

…MShapiro… yes he does.. but if you ever visited his website…
which im sure you did… somewhere in the beginning he says that the “EVENTS YOU WILL SEE , SHOULD NOT BE REPEATED…”

you see what he is saying?

NACHTWEY… for me is the EVEL KNIEVEL of photography…
He left MAGNUM when he realized that a CANON MARK II is better than a LEICA M6…
HE THINKS IS THE “ULTIMATE EXTREME”… he is what “JAY-Z “is for
HIP-HOP…. but if you ask me i would rather hung with “NAS”…
… so FUCK “NACHTWEY”… sorry i didnt mean it….
… i was suppose to say fuck “JAY-Z”…
peace

“…RYAN…

this is a great topic…i think i should do a whole post on it….
…thanks for thinking and thanks for being honest enough to bring it up…..

cheers, david

Posted by: david alan harvey | February 10, 2008 at 02:24 PM…”

Now i live in L.A… for 11 years.. My true opinion as a white looking american.. Enough with the immigrants….
They should go back to their countries… about “african americans”???? …
Sorry but why did they come here?… what made them leave beautiful Africa to come here in the first place…? Was it the love for money????… who knows…
but people vote for the Republicans… lets built more churches,
lets dedicate our life to the Lord, JESUS. I am recently “saved”…
Lets take away from our youth the “dirty” music like RAP…
NO MORE DRUGS… more playgrounds, libraries… there are “good”
magazines out there like the “NATGEO”…full of “Alex Webb’s ”
photos”… arresting “mexican-hispanic” immigrants… How did the “SNITCH” made it there in the first place…?

IT’S HARD TO BE BLACK OR BROWN IN THIS WHITE WORLD…

Ryan, thanks for bringing it up…. and that’s the reason you are my friend…and not only…
I “dig” your hispanic-lebanese upbringing… bitch…
Your “genes” know more than the average greek or white idiot…!

… and DAVID… THANKS FOR ALLOWING THE REAL SHIT IN THIS FORUM… BY THE WAY… completely in public…
I (panos), want to admit that i never thought of you as a “WHITE” motherfucker… buddha has no color….

people , sorry for my RACISM, but fuck the white world…

hey… M Shapiro… can i get arrested for being racist in public???

http://workprints.blogspot.com/

Hey, Panos, you’ve been giving me a hard time for not posting work… what do you think???

Posted by: mike | February 10, 2008 at 05:40 AM

PANOS SAYS: DOPE, motherfucker, dope… panos loves it…
Simply impressed… where you been hiding

folks at the Mexican border already know what it’s like there; it’s the rest of whom Alex shoots for (besides himself).

Michael

In wroclaw. Nice to see that sombody on the world want to learn polish langage. I’m Impressed.
:)
I love what you wrote in your blog “about me”.
great works. Keep going!

I did have some training long ago, and had a photo job, too. Worked porno in Vegas for a guy named Pistol. Did that for a couple of years. That was interesting. Learned that regardless of what R. Capa said, there is such a thing as too close. I have a real job now, but it has nothing to do with photography.

I am a little disappointed with the results of my efforts… it’s a start, but I know I have better pictures in me. How to get them is the question, and that’s why I’m here. Anyone have any advice?

Michael K… I believe I will go to the festival in Virginia, sounds like fun and I can take the train down.

Marcin… nie jestem Polaka, Amerikaninem w Nowym Yorku… tylko chodzilem do szkoly na jezyka polskiego duzo lat temu… mowie po polsku, ale nie dobrze. Lato, dojechalem do Polski… na poludniu, Krakow, Krynica, Tylicz, Przeszczyna, i Wroclaw. Best vacation of my life, what a beautiful country and I can’t wait to return. Gdzie mieszkasz?

Anyway, what might be cool is to do some mini caravans to and from here. For me it would probably have to be from not to.

DAVID – in case you need to break up your road trip by flying in or out for one of your one day meetings – Omaha is 2 1/2 hours, Mpls can be gotten to on Northwestern from Sioux Falls which is less than an hour from here.

Michael

A gathering sounds amazing … road trips to South Dakota, slide shows on sheets hanging in the yard, a campfire, good beer, a band (?) … perhaps I’m getting carried away but we’ve done similar things at our little place in the woods … the last one got a little carried away with 500 people, 3 bands, a two-story sound/multimedia stage, two screens stage right and left … hippy buses and mercedes in the field, state patrol on the hill.

Sorry, flashback :)) Seriously, it sounds great, i’ll hop a bus, or a train, or thumb my way and bring my tent. The DAH Convergence. Say when and i’ll be there! And I’d be happy to come a little early to help. I’ve been planning on an extended road trip this summer, or earlier … fits so well since I’ve been looking for a destination (both figuratively and literally) as a touchstone … road trip, road trip, road trip.

photographers saying to other photographers – “you need to get more in their face,” and PC people saying to photogs- “are you violating anyone’s space?”

OK, so you can either shoot from the outside in/toward/at-HCB
or you can put yourself in the middle and shoot out – Smith

What is the matter with either one of these approaches? (or anything in between?)

So, can I take pictures of women or old men or kids or dogs or cats?

I am part way through War Photographer. WOW! Can Nachtwey take pictures of people in Africa, Indonesia, Kosovo…?

Maybe need to view everything as humanity. Isn’t that what we’re photographing? (even my dog)

Michael

PS Wow, thanks to the people who have sent me phone numbers. Here’s where we are tentatively on dates – after July 17, excluding week of August 10. I suspect, also, that teachers (Bob) can’t go too late into August. Of course, the majority and DAH will win out over impossible holdouts.

MAS

this is a great topic…i think i should do a whole post on it….

i will say this quickly…if we eliminated all of the art (painting, film making, photography) made by artists “outside” of their own culture/family, we would be eliminating most of the art in the world!!!

however, i get your point….i can see why this would be something to think about….i have my opinions, but i want to hear others first…if the thread unravels here, so be it…if not i will get a new post up on it soonest…

thanks for thinking and thanks for being honest enough to bring it up…..

cheers, david

the thing is, it seems that few are interested or wondering what natives think of such type of work or books. maybe we are wrong, or maybe it is not important, coz’ it’s also about photography rather than just culture, and as in Thailand, people often wonder why in the hell you are taking pictures of people who are not your family.

They may not relate to the act of witnessing with a camera, rather than having a judgement on what the gringo or Farang (gringo in thai) is coming up with about their culture.

Also, the photographer is physically an outsider, I mean when the shot is taken, he/she is. For a snap of a second you are outside looking in, and this is much of what photography is about.

That outsider input, would characterize a native photographer too. The act of photography require, for all photographers that mental stepping back, while its mechanics clearly set you off the subject, the culture, the people.

Well, I actually think that’s not limiting, but is the greatness of photography that outside looking in quality.

Yet, just to add water to your argument, I like W Klein a lot, but his PARIS/KLEIN is 90% KLEIN and the rest rather IN Paris, than about Paris.
That’s OK though, but title should be paris (incidentally)/KLEIN ! :-)

Becky told me that she and Alex will be here sometime in July and be around for quite awhile working on some projects.

Bob Black said he wants to come this summer with the oft talked about Marina and Dima.

So far, then, David, Panos, Herve, Michael K, Bob. Could use more shooters for critical mass, and what about the California Women?

I’ve been making a mental list of photo ops around here. I’ll discuss it with David when the time comes, so he can give instructions/assignments/suggestions as he sees fit.

DAVID – Could you send your cell number to me via email? michael@photonphotos.com

Ciao

Michael

Eight years ago I took my first trip to the Arctic, a little Inuit village called Arviat. By a little networking, I procured the use of a house owned by a teacher in their school system right on the shore of Hudson Bay. I took my first pictures of the Inuit during the week surrounding X-mas.

When I was making arrangements to go back, I had a deal worked out with the local B&B to stay free in exchange for some prints. As the time approached, however, this white person, who had appointed herself guardian of the oppressed, said that since I had not cleared the shoot with the village elders the year before, she would no longer offer me free room and board. I, of course, was astonished, since nobody had ever mentioned even the existence of the elders, much less the need to consult with them. I ended up going to a different village, twice…

Where I was informed that the Inuit themselves did not have any reason not to want me to photograph and that they did not understand this woman’s actions.

This idea of deciding whether other peoples’ actions/ thoughts are proper or not is becoming ubiquitous, and I find it disturbing. For myself, I don’t care who does what, as long as it doesn’t harm anyone.

I think the current phrase is PC. Sorry, but we have to get beyond PC. We have to maintain an honest pure soul in ourselves. We cannot worry what race someone is, whether he/she has the right to photograph or make a statement about something.

Personally, I think that an outsider’s view of a situation has its own special merits.

This has been a mal-organized ramble, but I hope someone with more eloquence can address the issue.

Alex takes beautiful photos. They are powerful. What goes on in his head? Who cares except for purposes of learning how to go there yourself if you so desire!

Hey Bob, where are you?

Michael