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It was only a few years ago I finally noticed that Rollei produced a 25 ASA film! I was excited because in the 1990s I used to shoot almost exclusively Agfa APX25 – and I loved ...
The cyanotype process is loved by both photographers and printmakers alike. With relative ease, your image is steeped into a realm of rich, velvety blues that convey a sense of ...
3 June, 2021
My Journey Shooting 85 Analog Cameras (and Writing a Book about it) – By Christof Bircher
It all started with a Canon A1 I picked up from my dealer for $20 a few years ago. And – I almost don’t dare to say – ended trying out 85 different analog cameras, shooting a fe...
I returned to film in 2016 when my wife gifted me a Zorki-4 with Jupiter-8 and said that I was shooting better pictures with film cameras years before. This started a tremendous...
The Olympus 35 SPn is a relatively large and quite impressive-looking rangefinder camera. It is about 5 inches/13 cm long, 3 inches/7.5 cm high. At the time it was originally re...
31 May, 2021
Colour Theory for Black and White Photography Part 1: Digital and Analogue Filters – by Sroyon
A black and white photograph "translates" the colours of the original scene into shades of grey. This "translation" or conversion is done by the film (in film photography), or b...
As the brief pandemic summer ended and plans to ease restrictions were put on hold, I masked up and headed to a small-town thrift store that rarely has cameras but when it does,...
In December 2020 I found myself spending my first "Pandemic Christmas" in Bulgaria out of necessity to meet a few criteria necessary to travel onwards (via Istanbul) to the USA....
