Theory & Reflections Archives

5 September, 2024

Early Auto Exposure – Three Different Approaches

By Tony Warren

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...

4 September, 2024

When Kitsch Becomes Collectible

By Dave Powell

I just experienced huge culture shock about that thing up there. During the 1980s and early ‘90s, I was a computer-networking journalist and editor for publications like Minicom...

3 September, 2024

My Asylum Years

By John Greene

Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was quite en...

28 August, 2024

The Stupidity of Being Stubborn

By Andrea Monti

I knew exactly that I was going to fail, but I did it anyway, irrationally thinking that for some not well clear reason the law of physics and optics could be defied by the sacr...

27 August, 2024

A Collector’s Journey From Microscopes to Cancer to Cameras

By David Smith

My passion for film photography began with a different sort of vintage lens, the kind you mount to an aged brass microscope. I’m a biologist and have always been fascinated with...

17 August, 2024

The beginning of a TLR Challenge

By Geoff Chaplin

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 – and it’s not ...

12 August, 2024

The Camera that Launched my Career… and Nearly Devastated me.

By Jeffery Luhn

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. The Exa has no real shutter. T...

7 August, 2024

That time I sent a letter to the president of Canon, and got a reply.

By juan badel

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 ...

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