As a Rolleiflex Medium format SLR fan for decades and a dealer of them since 2013, most of this is old news to me, but I did enjoy reading this article on the 6008 and the parent site also looks worth checking out. Source: Rollei 6008 with 80mm Zeiss lens was a camera I used for years. Read more
A secret stash of hundreds of Soviet cameras found in a Kazakh warehouse – Kosmo Foto
A secret stash of hundreds of Soviet cameras found in a Kazakh warehouse Source: A secret stash of hundreds of Soviet cameras found in a Kazakh warehouse – Kosmo Foto This was a pretty amazing to learn that warehouses of new cameras and lenses may be out there waiting to be discovered! And I have a Smena that looks new that I bought on ebay last year… maybe one of them? I bought it because I read an article whereRead more
Low contrast developing for high contrast scenes: D-23
Source: D-23 One of the facets about analog photography that I really enjoy is the huge amount of ways to change or influence the look of an image. Developing chemistry is such a huge topic and I’ve barely scratched the surface on this. I’ve been reading about two bath processing that supposedly reduces contrast and holds shadow tones and highlights well. Here’s a few reasons why it might be useful: Low contrast negatives scan very well Low contrast negativesRead more
Comparison of 35mm and Medium format negative sizes
http://photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/filmformats.html I found this page while looking for a list of which medium format cameras shoot 6×7 … not exactly what I was originally looking for but wanted to make a note since this is useful information. Photoethnography.com has a lot of other interesting stuff worth checking out. 120 film: Kodak numbered all of its film types, starting with 100 (I think). So 120 roll film is actually a rather early format. It was used in the Kodak Brownie cameras. TheRead more
Rolleiflex Buying Guide | Colton Allen | Film Shooters Collective
As the US Rolleiflex importer and dealer since 2013, I get a lot of questions about the older TLR’s and I think this is a pretty nicely put together buyer’s guide. Seems everyone has their favorite – I’ve even seen photographer’s go to huge expense to have a digital back added to their Rolleicords (which aren’t reviewed in the linked article) but just goes to show even the lower cost TLR’s were capable of producing amazing images. Most people don’tRead more
The “biggest” aerial camera built
According to this article the ‘Boston Camera’ which shoots an 18×36 inch negative is the biggest aerial camera built. It does look quite impressive! Source: “Boston Camera” > National Museum of the United States Air Force™ > DisplayRead more
The New York Public Library Digital Collections resource has an amazing number of historic photos.
The New York Public Library Digital Collections have an amazing number of historic photos – including some from early San Francisco where I live. Definitely worth a look – maybe you’ll find something interesting? They have a decent search tool to help go through the archive. Source: Search results – “photography” – NYPL Digital CollectionsRead more
Books that made a difference: Camera Lucida (Roland Barthes, 1980) DPReview post
This post on DPreview today by Barney on the Barthes’ book Camera Lucida was really interesting and worth a read – and perhaps the book itself too? There were over 100 comments posted to this article at the time I read it, many including other essential photography book titles including books by Robert Adams, Susan Sontag, Stephen Shore, Joan Didion, John Berger and many more – so the comments on the article were really also quite interesting. What books haveRead more
8×10 film vs IQ4 150mp | On Landscape
8 years ago I was fascinated by Tim Parkin’s article comparing film to the then best digital medium format backs – and one of the reasons I began to explore film in a more serious way. I’m excited to see that he’s recently updated this with a new comparison of 8×10 film to the 150mp digital backs. For me this is a re-confirmation of what I’ve already found myself while shooting 6×6 mf, 4×5 and 8×10 LF film. Besides theRead more
MTF – The English Translation
This post contains absolutely no mathematics. Explaining MTF without math is sort of like doing a high-wire act without a net. It’s dangerous, but for any number of reasons is more likely to keep the audience interested. Why Am I Doing This Again? I wrote an article on reading MTF charts several years ago. It […] Source: MTF – The English TranslationRead more
Camera review: the Fuji Panorama GX617, a legendary panoramic behemoth | EMULSIVE
I’ve got several panoramic cameras in my collection including several swing cameras and a Linhof 617 Technorama but the Fuji is one that I’ve always looked at. Here’s a nice review of it on Emulsive! I’ll come back a bit later and add something about my own cameras… Source: Camera review: the Fuji Panorama GX617, a legendary panoramic behemoth | EMULSIVERead more
Film Simulation vs Actual Film: Fuji ACROS Comparison
Interesting film vs digital comparison posted on Peta Pixel by Dale Rogers. This is with the new version of the Fuji Acros pitted against the same film emulation on the Fuji digital camera. Different lenses but similar equivalent focal length. What do you think? In most cases I actually liked the real film shots better. The recent release of the Fujifilm XPro3 camera coincided with me getting some recently re-released Fujifilm ACROS 100II film. Given my love of Fujifilm Source:Read more