6 February, 2024
Drinking Districts in Japan VII: Obihiro
We went to Obihiro primarily to eat – the food seems so much better than the area where we live – and also to see a friend; unexpectedly I came back with a large present – a Pen...
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5 February, 2024
Fuji MX-500 – 5 Frames for Jankuary with my first digital camera
Given that others are digging out newer cameras for Jankuary, I decided to take another look at my first digital camera – a Fujifilm MX-500. This had a 1.5 megapixel camer...
If you like to shoot film, then you understand that it isn’t every day that a camera maker comes to market with a line of new cameras, let alone large format view cameras....
4 February, 2024
5 Frames with a Kodak Medalist II and Ektar 100
Kodak’s original brochure for the Medalist II describes it as a “compact, integrated assembly”. They’re so wrong. It’s a magnificent beast. The cel...
3 February, 2024
Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article, I stumbled on a way to shoot “super-macro” photos with a vintage Contaflex SLR! And it was done without Zeiss Ikon’s “Proxar” screw-on lens adapters (...
You’ll think I’m nuts to recommend an admittedly “janky” digital camera that dates all the way back to 1999. During the original Polaroid company’s final years before closing it...
2 February, 2024
F-Stop Printing in the Darkroom
Although I scan all my negatives so that I can share photos online, I prefer to make prints in the darkroom. I find it to be an engaging technical craft that provides endless th...
Reveni Labs has released upgraded versions of both the Shoe-Mount Light Meter and Spot Meter. Created in Canada by Matt Bechberger, both meters are 3D printed with high-quality ...
