17 October, 2024
TLR Challenge – My Response
I’m Jeffery Luhn and I’m happy to respond to Geoff Chaplin’s TLR Challenge! Background: A week after beginning my career as a news photographer in 1969, I acqu...
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25 September, 2024
4×5 reborn, or “What are those things?”
For perspective, let’s rewind our brains. In a long-forgotten time, on a planet called Earth, there were no self-driving cars, no 20MP cell phone cameras, no affordable d...
22 September, 2024
How I achieve Good scans with a DIY rig
There have been frequent mentions on this website about scans of negatives, ranging from professional labs to table-top models. I’m going to describe my experiences using...
16 September, 2024
Nikon 500mm Mirror Lens – The short fat cheap deal!
I bought a used 500mm mirror lens in 1975 when I was shooting for United Press International. It was the longest focal length in the smallest form factor available at the time. ...
13 September, 2024
Weegee Returns – A photographic tribute to a legendary cult photographer!
Once upon a time in a wild and dangerous city, there lived a bold and fearless photographer. He roamed the inky black night of America’s most populated and crime-ridden c...
12 August, 2024
The Camera that Launched my Career… and Nearly Devastated me.
I’m talking about the EXA 1-A, my first ‘grown-up’ camera. Don’t confuse this model with classic Exacta cameras with leaf or focal plane shutters. Th...