The next French-speaking Large Format conference in Montreux has been announced by the organiser, Pierre Stringa.
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This conference is the 3-rd conference organised by the French-speaking group
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previous events : Nîmes, France in 2004 and Fontfroide Abbey, France in Oct. 2006.

Well this is a French-speaking conference but since it is this year located in a country, Switzerland, where there are 4 official languages plus one extra un-official language (English ) everybody is welcome !

3-rd Large Format Conference in Montreux, Switzerland.

Dates: 14-15-16 septembre 2007
Location: Maison des Congrès, Montreux Convention Centre, Montreux (Vaud-Switzerland)

Attendance fees for the conference: 50 euro ; allow about 15 euro extra for each meal.

Programme:

Friday, September 14, 2007

- Welcome, 3pm, Place du Marché (Market Place) in Vevey a city just close to Montreux.
- 3:30 pm Visit of the Musée Suisse de l'Appareil Photographique, Swiss Camera Museum and visit of their annual exhibition.
- 6pm: Transfer to Maison Visinand in Montreux, Centre Culturel de Montreux (Montreux Cultural Centre), presentation of the exhibition of the 4-rd Rencontres Photographiques de Montreux (Montreux Annual Photo Meeting), this year the theme is: « La Lenteur » ("Slowness in Photogrtaphy").

- 7:30 evening apéritif-dinner.

Samedi, September 15, 2007
Morning
- 9am Beginning of the conference, at Centre des Congrès de Montreux (Montreux Convention Centre)

- Conference on the theme « Lenteur » (slowness in photography) as seen by Jean-Claude Mougin, philosopher, photographer and specialist of palladium prints.
- 9:45 Conference on the theme « lenteur(s) Suisse» (the legendary Swiss slowness,,. yes they did it !) by the Swiss group of photographers.
-10:30 La Trichromie, The Tricolor process, last advances in reserach and experiments by our specialist Henri Gaud, photographer, photographic researcher.

Discussion.

- 11:30 Conference on the theme « Lenteur(s) » given by the French Nîmes group, Henri Peyre, Marc Genevrier, Guillaume Péronne

- 12:15 Lunch in common at the conference centre.

Afternoon
- 1:45pm « Un temps d'avant la photographie » (At a time before photography ??), Conference by Mr. Charles-Henri Favrod, former director of Musée de L'Elysée (Lausanne), co-founder of the Centre de la Photographie de Winterthur, he is one of the major European collectors of photographs.

- 2:30 pm « Le paradigme numérique » (the digital paradigm) by Mme Sabine Süsstrunk.
Mme Sabine Süsstrunk graduated in scientific photography at ETHZ/EPFZ, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and in electronic publishing at the Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT, (NY, USA), Sabine Süsstrunk got her Ph.D. degree at University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK in the Colour Group, School of Computing Science.

Born in 1962, she has worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Photographic Art at RIT, Rochester and as principal researcher in image technology at Corbis, one of the major electronic image banks. In 2003, she was invited by Hewlett-Packard, Palo-Alto (CA, USA) for one year at HP research labs, where she worked on new technologies for displays.
The objective measurement of photographic image quality when noise is present is one of her major contributions to scientific research. Those measurements of the sensitivity to noise as seen by the observer are now part of the international ISO standard and have been incorporated in the functions of all digital cameras. Her present research focuses on developing new algorithms for the interpretation of colour images, for example interpolation of digital colour image arrays, digital transformations for chromatic adaptation and a better rendering of images with high dynamic ranges.

Discussion.

4:15 « Procédés Classiques, conservation, restauration et numérisation de l'image » (Classic photographic processes, preservation, restoration and digital image storage and processing) by Christophe Brandt, director of La Chambre Claire, the reference Swiss Laboratory in the field.

Discussion.

17h30 Apéritif and exchanges between the participants.

Sunday, September 16

- 9am « De la fabrication de la feuille de papier, en passant par le négatif verre pour aller au tirage charbon » (From fabrication of the sheet of sensitive paper, through the glass negative plate to the final carbon print), a detailed technical presentation (practical !) by your humble servant, Pierre Stringa, photographer.

Discussions and exchanges.

-10:30am Presentation of LF equipment, exchanges & meetings between all participants.

-11:30am (surprise) a Concert given to the participants

-12:15 commun lunch at the conference centre

- 1:30pm continuation of the exchanges and presentations

3pm End of the Conference.

Inscriptions by e-mail to Pierre Stringa

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