18 October, 2024
Running with cameras
The great Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami wrote a book titled What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Let’s talk about running and photography. I am a passionate p...
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...
2 October, 2024
TLR Challenge: 1 – User Errors
There are no mistakes, only learning experiences. After about 8 weeks from the start of my challenge I’ve had plenty of learning experiences so I thought it would be wort...
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...
5 September, 2024
Early Auto Exposure – Three Different Approaches
When my original plans for the Agfa Selecta M I bought a little impulsively recently were clearly not going to happen, the camera type in general began to interest me. I already...
17 August, 2024
The beginning of a TLR Challenge
Like many other photographers it seems, I have problems with TLRs. It’s not that the format is new – I used to use a Hasselblad regularly for 5 years or so –...
It was the 9th year of the third millennium. One of the last years in which western civilization advanced forward. Some of the last good music was being recorded, and there was ...
21 July, 2024
The Cost of the Mamiya 7
In the early days of the pandemic I purchased a Mamiya 7 kit from an old timer at a reasonable price. This had long been a dream camera of mine and I had been searching for one ...
