In July 2002, Kate and I hooked up with friends, to hear the great American jazz pianist Dave McKenna play the grand piano at East Boston's Cafe Italia. Back then, I never went ...
Dave Powell's Posts
13 November, 2022
5 Yashica T4 “Rainy Day” Frames – By Dave Powell
The Yashica T4 point-and-shoot needs no introduction. It-- and the T4-Super/T5-- are legendary for the “character” of their photos. Several years ago, I found one marked $1 at a...
9 November, 2022
Fixing an Ailing Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super B SLR – By Dave Powell
About a year ago, some Austrian friends handed me a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super that they brought with them to America after World War II. They said it no longer worked, and if I...
In response to this recent 35mmc article, reader Toby Van de Velde asked for an article about my digital-infrared workflow. The more I thought about it, the more useful I though...
29 September, 2022
For Quick Film Scans, Try an Olympus C-8080WZ!
An old friend recently asked if I could digitize some 35mm slides of a coastal Maine motel her family once owned. She’d researched the commercial cost of scanning, and before bi...
24 September, 2022
Some Rolling-Shutter Fun… From a Moving Bus – By Dave Powell
The proverb “Necessity is the mother of invention” is credited to philosophers going back to Plato. But a modern paraphrase claims that boredom is another mother of invention. I...
3 August, 2022
5 Largely Unknown Digital-Infrared Gems – By Dave Powell
For nearly a quarter century, I've tested every digital camera that crossed my path to see how well it handled infrared photography. Some didn't pass muster, like my beloved Min...
28 July, 2022
Shooting the “Callahan” Way – By Dave Powell
My wife Kate and I discovered the American photographer Harry Callahan in 2010, when we visited this exhibit at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. Callahan’s often ex...