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Found Film Friday: Country Outing
This week’s roll of “found film” came to me from near Binghamton, New York, where the Ansco company was located from the mid-1800s to around 1980. The spool was covered in rust, and the backing paper was stuck to the film so badly that I was unable to remove large strips of paper. So I…
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A Brief History of Photography…as of 1912.
I have a few old camera magazines – about a century old. Â It’s fun to flip through them every now and then and consider how much has changed…and in some cases, how little has changed…in the field of photography. The article below, from the December 1912 issue of “The Camera” magazine (cover above), recounts the…
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Dispatch From Sierra Leone: Return Home
So, I’ve been back a week, but a lot has been going on. Â I wanted to go back and share some final impressions of what was a fascinating, extremely challenging month in this small West African country I never imagined I’d go and visit (as an aside: under different circumstances, i.e. flights readily available and…
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Found Film Friday: Portraits with Grandma
This week’s found film was inside a camera – a Kodak Brownie Target Six-20, as seen below. This camera was manufactured between 1946 and 1952 and sold for three and a half bucks. It gets its name from the film it used – 620 film, a variant of 120 film, basically just on a thinner…
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Found Film Friday: Trip to Grandpa’s!
This is the final installment in a series of film rolls recovered from Colorado, and originally shot in the 1960s. Â We have met the “Smiths” and seen them at Christmas, Easter, birthdays and a trip to Florida and camping with the Airstream. Â In this final post from that set of film, the kids go to…