Alongside Kodak Panatomic-X film, Technical Pan is renowned for its exquisite detail and unique tonal range, and this film has captured the hearts of photographers seeking to unlock unparalleled beauty in their images. However, its alluring...
If you are looking for a budget-friendly rangefinder camera that can use Leica thread mount lenses, you might want to consider the Voigtlander Bessa R. This camera was introduced in 2000 by Cosina, a Japanese company that revived the Voigtlander...
Over the past few years, digitizing negatives with DSLR cameras has become increasingly popular. One issue this raises is the choice of light source, and the question of how to optimize color rendition of in particular color negative scans. In...
One of the challenges of carbon transfer printing is rendering delicate highlights. In this blog I explore the particular issues with DAS sensitizer in this respect and propose a (simple) theoretical perspective on this.
Michael Elliott reviews the Texas Leica, aka the Beast, aka the Fujica GL690.
Panatomic-X was not only a film, but also a part of photographic history. It was introduced in 1933 as a sheet film for aerial photography, and it went through several revisions and formats over the years. It was discontinued in the late 1980s or...
Technical Pan film In the 1980s, Eastman Kodak heavily advertised their Technical Pan as being an extremely fine grain and high resolution ...
Street photography, as an art form, has undergone significant changes in the 21st century. We examine the challenges and advantages.
I recently took the plunge into medium format film photography and purchased a Mamiya RB67 with a broken focus rack and knob. I repaired it using CAD, a lathe and a 3D printer. I cloned the original focus knobs in CAD so anyone can 3D print...
If a Polaroid pack camera is going to be useful these days, it needs manual shutter speeds. Here's a cheap way to do it.
Dear Readers, while trying to purge junk from my endless stuff-filled closets and bookshelves, I found camera and photography catalogs that ...
Photo walks are something I had often read about online – photographers meeting together to walk, chat, and take photographs. But I had never really sought them out, purely because I believed…
Guillotine shutters are just what the name implies. A shutter in the form of a gravity driven guillotine. They can either be implemented as two plates that slide down one after another (the delay between release governing the exposure time) or a...
Buying and restoring an ultra large format, Indian field camera for use with glass plates.
Dear Readers, this is the last (for now) article in my series on discontinued types of camera film ("Films from the Dead"). Kodak's Gold c...
A great day with Sun and Snow to test the dynamic range of Cawanol Professional. You can judge for yourself in the sample image, virtually all highlights and shadows are protected. You can download the copyrighted full resolution image, scanned...
More photographs from Mississippi using Kodak Ektar 25 in 120 size (part of my "Films from the Dead" series)
A way of working with dry plates during covid lockdowns
Discontinued photographic films ("Film from the Dead"): GAF Versapan
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