I’ve played around with digital “enabling” of toy cameras for a while now, from my first Digital Holga to the pinhole digital, and even the “barbieCam”- a modified body cap using a plastic lens from an old Barbie Movie Projector.  Sorry.  I haven’t yet found any image of such a thing on Google.  It’s fun stuff, especially if you’re a Holga, toy camera fan and love them blurry photos. 
 

A buddy of mine found this little Bakelite camera in the cellar of a friend’s house, while helping him clean out.  This is a Univex Model A camera from Universal Camera Corporation, a camera that sold in the  1930’s for around 39¢, with a “00” film roll that sported what looks like a full 35mm frame. 
 

The lens is easily removable and can be replaced without damaging it, a plus for such a sweet vintage camera…  so here’s a how-to on using a body cap with your DSLR to try out some of this special “glass”…  well, uh, lenses. 
 

Glass only comes into the equation some of the time… 

Not for nothin, but if you're a product photographer you may want to rethink your business plan... 
 

Via TechRadar, we learned that this little $17K gadget can completely automate 3D product work.  Especially since it hits right to the website product animation market, and, considering the cost of 3D rendering and photography, if you're shooting lots of expensive widgets it's really pretty cost-effective (if it works) you may be competing against it in the not-too distant future...  that is, unless you own one (or two) yourself... 
 

This, fron the TechRadar site:

I first got hold of the ColorMunki at ver.1, brand new, and ran it through some tests for my blog and for my book, Color Pipeline. 
 

Let’s just say I was less than impressed. 
 

The ColorMunki was a great effort.  It is a product that tries to break through the Color Management mystique, save the photographer a bit of money, and give us a unit that does it all.  Most photographers desperately need to calibrate their monitors.  Some of them need to build printer profiles, and none of them really want to spend the over-$1000 for a professional system like the X-Rite i1Pro. 
 

We ran a whole array of display calibrators and the story will post here soon, but the one thing I was really interested in doing was to get my hands on the new version of the Munki.  I’d heard it was much better, even in the very first version update, than the one I’d worked with, and it was a product that I wanted to like.  The bottom line?  It builds a great printer profile.  Take a look. 
 

The system uses a little different idea in generating targets and building profiles from them.  Normally you simply print out a standard test target, usually 2 pages, and then go to the “read the target” phase.  Sit down with a cup of coffee and read the strips.  It builds a profile. 

The Munki starts with one page of very limited colors, making it a really fast read, and then builds a second page based on what the first page looks like.  This is page one. 

One last little bit of news from CES?  Red Scarlet Prototype, and annoying press guys. 
 

Brain under $3K, full (basic) shooting package under $5K.

Well, I'm just a little underwhelmed by CES.  Although I would have liked to see Lady Gaga (she doesn't return my calls anymore... ) there's been just little or no real earth-shattering news coming out for the pro photographer.  Here's the new improved workhorse of a lens from Canon, though, the2nd gen. EF 70-200MM f/2.8L IS II USM.  How could I not have Lens Envy? 
 

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, and here's the down and dirty: