12 September, 2024
Negatives from the Original 1888 Kodak Camera
I’ve been digitizing negatives for over 15 years and collecting them for almost 40. I have never seen any of the original Kodak camera negatives, so when I recently looked...
20 August, 2024
Discovering some Photos Taken by my Grandfather with his Leica
In June 1952, my maternal grandparents embarked on a life-changing move Graz, Austria, from their home since WWII, to New York City. My grandmother, six months pregnant with my ...
30 November, 2023
A Roll of My Grandfather’s Film – Agfa Isopan on his Leica I
Some years ago my late father handed me a cardboard box containing 100’s of his father’s negatives dating from the 1920’s onwards. The vast majority in bulk and number are 4¼” X...
There’s plenty of routine and repetition in photography. The sequences we all run through; film shooters – loading the roll, the cocking of the wind on lever. Digita...
27 February, 2022
Saving Glass Plates From WW1 – By Michell Boysen
Living in a small town in the countryside has its pros and cons.
One of the pros (or cons) being that if you work in an area outside of the ordinary,
most people know about it...
On November 7, 1964 Conxita and Josep got married. You will see that, according to the typical professional studio photo of that time, they made a good couple and, of course, th...
10 October, 2021
Found Film: A Peek into Someone Else’s Past – By Shawn Granton
After a year and a half back into film photography, I figured the day would come when I buy a camera with a roll of film in it. This day came in June, when I bought a Minolta Fr...
I retired in 2012 and decided to turn up the wick on my lifelong interest in film photography. I wanted something to do in the indoor winter months and started to scan my archi...