28 February, 2025
7Artisans 25mm f/1.8 Review
I bought this 7Artisans 25mm f/1.8 lens on a lark when it was advertised for $69 (new) on Amazon including shipping. This model is an f/1.8 model. Totally manual everything. 7Ar...
Jeffery Luhn's Posts
1 February, 2025
Imago Absentia – A Portrait of the Absent
To photographers, the word portraiture conjures up an image of a human subject posing for a photograph. But what if the person is no longer with us and cannot be photographed? W...
10 January, 2025
5 frames with Ilford XP2 film
Ilford XP2 is a black and white film emulsion designed to be processed in C-41 color chemistry. The box speed is 400, but many people shoot it at higher speeds with good results...
5 December, 2024
A Camera Trio in Rio
Rio de Janeiro means ‘River of January’ in Portuguese. This name was chosen by the explorers who first arrived in their tiny wind-blown ships on January 1, 1502. C...
3 December, 2024
Can You Get Mojo From TLR Cameras?
Tony Warren’s recent post entitled, “My TLRs Over the Years”, got me thinking about the who, what, where, and how my experiences with TLR’s made phot...
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...
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...