Topic: Karl Ferris

[beck]

Strolling through the FlickrCentral group, someone made a post about the fisheye lens...and I made comment that photographer Karl Ferris was more than likely the first person to use a fisheye on his Nikon during the 1960's.....remembering the Are You Experienced album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. So I looked around and found this really neat docu on Karl explaining that whole, well, experience. Along with his use of infrared film. Neat stuff...

You can watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp54sT9qGQk



http://www.rockandrollreport.com/2008/02/25/cover-story-jimi-hendrix-experiences-are-you-experienced-with-photography-by-karl-ferris/

[LT]

thanks for that Beck - that's my kind of link

[beck]

I'm glad. I get a really good feeling watching this as I have several times now. The short film he did with Donovan must be extraordinary....the bits with the cave is so damn great. I would love to experiment with movie film...super 8, and whatnot....film that is still made today.

To think Karl is only asking a measly $2500 for the one original slide print...wow.



http://members.shaw.ca/jimihendrixphotos/