This is my first experience with large format photography since college – over 40 years ago. I have just obtained a 4×5 view camera. It’s a Toyo 45A Field Camera. I will shoot (at least […]
This is my first experience with large format photography since college – over 40 years ago. I have just obtained a 4×5 view camera. It’s a Toyo 45A Field Camera. I will shoot (at least […]
Recently I’ve been interested in medium format photography (again). My post last week talked about a couple new (to me) medium format cameras by Mamiya – the C33 and the C220. Today, I’m going to […]
I look for old cameras from time to time, and I recently found a Mamiya C220 and C33. Both examples of Mamiya’s twin lens reflex cameras, and both in great shape. Mamiya was one of […]
The Junior Six-20 camera was manufactured in the 1930’s by Kodak in Rochester, NY. It’s quite a nice little camera, although a bit plain. I would guess that it sold for somewhere between $20 and […]
Some of the vintage cameras I’ve collected were built to use 828 film. I wondered what that was about. I wondered what 828 film was. In reading about it, I learned that 828 was Kodak’s […]
I’ve been shooting with my OM-4 for several weeks now. I’m circling through several different cameras (Nikon F2, Nikon F, Olympus OM-1, Olympus OM-2, Canon F-1, Canon A-1, Olympus OM-4) to compare features, and generally […]
So, I was happy to get my first rolls of Ektachrome 120 that I pre-ordered on the Film Photography Project website. I’m always excited to try something new. It’s strange these days, since film has […]
Last week I took some photos with a telephoto lens of the Orion Nebula – which can be found in the Orion constellation. From Texas, where I live, it is visible at this time of […]
In the 1980’s, Minolta made a camera called the Talker. It was advanced in that it contained a voice chip, and responded to certain conditions by verbally warning you. It might say things like, “Too […]
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