One Rokkor Around The World - Lens w/ Perpetualis until 1-Jun-12

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About One Rokkor Around The World - Lens w/ Perpetualis until 1-Jun-12

Sending one Rokkor lens to as many locations as possible and seeing what people photograph.

The 28mm lens - Started in May 2012, Finished in ?????



The 50mm lens - Started in April 2010, Finished in April 2012


(Photo courtesy of HaarFager)

The goal for this project is to have one Minolta Rokkor lens travel all over the world. The lens will be in the possession of each participant for up to two weeks, then it should be sent to the next person on its travel itinerary. During each participant's time with the lens, that person may take as many photos as they want with it. We would like several photos taken of things representative of your region, town, culture, etc. Photos may be posted in the group pool as soon as they are developed and scanned. Amended for the 28mm Project: We are asking each participant to photograph subjects that are indicative of their country, region, culture, etc. We are looking for landmarks, events, and other subjects of cultural and/or historical significance to your country or region. As an example, I spent a morning photographing Fort McHenry, which is a significant historical Baltimore landmark that played a significant part in the American Revolutionary War.

Subject matter should obviously be appropriate to the group, so no porn, violence, vulgar, or obscene stuff. (We are not the morality police, but just use good judgment.)

Some of the recent great work submitted by our participating photographers:

Portland Head Light at Sunrise by BobD2



BW2010112713 by paristhecure



eyes wide open by ratsj



PARTICIPATION RULES

If you have agreed to participant, you will be responsible for several things:

(1) Paying for shipping to the next person on the travel itinerary. Please try not to hold on to the lens for longer than the two week period. If there were circumstances beyond your control that kept you from using the lens during the allotted time, please FlickMail me and I’ll give you another few days, perhaps a week extension. After the additional allotted time, however, please send the lens to the next participant regardless of whether you took pictures with it or not. Please try to keep the box that the lens is being shipped in. I’ve found a very small box and have lined it with foam, so you won’t have to worry about shipping peanuts, etc. If the box becomes unusable at some point, I’ll leave it to each participants’ judgment about whether to find a new box or not.

It would be helpful in order to have the least amount of downtime if participants would pay for expedited shipping, especially if you are located in an outlying location. Now, I say “expedited”, but I am not expecting participants to pay $40 or $50 USD to ship the lens overnight or even 2 or 3 day shipping out of country. Whatever reasonable shipping available in your country that is one or two week would be preferable. What I don't want to have happen is for the lens to get stuck on a ship for 3 months.

With U.S. participants, I've tried my best to keep the jumps between participants close, but some of the participants in our central and western U.S. states have some distance between them and the next person. For U.S. residents, 2 - 3 day priority mail shipping will cost you $5.75 with delivery confirmation (< $5 without delivery confirmation). I’m hoping you are willing to pay what I think is a fairly reasonable shipping cost to keep this lens moving quickly through the U.S.

I'm going to suggest that perhaps we pool some money for the person having to ship the lens out-of-country, but I'm going to leave it up to participants in each country to figure that out. (Sorry those of you who are the sole participant in your country... I don't know of a better way to do it.)

(Note: If you are close enough to the next person in the list and want to meet to transfer the lens, you are more than welcome.)

(2) Since we will all be in the dark when each participants’ two week period starts until that person actually receives the lens, please do two things immediately when you receive the lens:

First, update the “status thread” I’ll create in the Group Discussions. This is for updating the location of the lens - i.e., when you receive it, when you send it out and to whom. It is not for telling us about what you are shooting with the lens or other questions, comments, etc.

Amended for the 28mm Project: Second, FlickMail the next three participants on the itinerary. The next person in the list needs to respond promptly with their mailing address. The other two just need to respond with a "Hey, I'm here" message. That way, we know you haven't fallen off the face of the earth (or at least, the fact of Flickr). If we don't hear from the next person in the list, we are going to move to the next person who has responded. We can make adjustments if you show up later (assuming the lens hasn't left your country yet). The main thing is we need to keep the lens moving!

This looks like it will be over a two year project. If, for whatever reason, you change your mind about participating, please Flickrmail me promptly, so that I can make adjustments to the itinerary and inform the appropriate participants of the changes.

(2) Supplying your own film and camera to use with the lens. It will obviously have to be something capable of mounting a Minolta manual focus lens, though it does not have to be a Minolta manual focus camera, nor does it have to be film. Extension tubes, reverse rings, and teleconverters are OK.

(3) Getting your film developed and scanned in a timely manner for upload to the group. You don't have to upload ever photo you took with the lens. Posting your best photos would actually be preferable. It would additionally be requested, though not required, that you tag your photo with the camera/film/"exif data" and geotag your photo on Flickr (for privacy reasons, if the photo is in your house or apartment, no, we do not expect you to tag it.)