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
A Glossary of Photographic Terms
Photography is associated with a seemingly endless and ever-changing list of jargon and technical terms. A glossary is an essential reference for someone new to photography, and...
8 September, 2024
Kamera with a K – An ode to a love of Kamera: Shooting Seoul with a long missed Zeiss Ikon ZM
I love cameras and this is a little bit of a love story. I always have – ever since I picked up my older brothers much used Halina 35X and put a roll of Tudor – a UK...
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...
4 September, 2024
When Kitsch Becomes Collectible
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 ...
3 September, 2024
My Asylum Years
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 q...
28 August, 2024
The Stupidity of Being Stubborn
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
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 fascinat...
