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Sunday Photowalk through the ‘Hood
Monsoon season has come to Chennai, India.  According to the weather reports, it’s only raining in Chennai.  But it seems that all the rain which should have fallen elsewhere is also falling in Chennai.  So when I woke up this morning for the planned photowalk in town (with other photographers) and heard the pouring rain, I…
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Found Film: Singing Family
Here’s another “found film” set – one of a number of rolls of vintage film that have been discovered inside cameras, attics or elsewhere – that have made their way to me to be rescued from oblivion. Â This is the latest roll: This roll supposedly originated in South Carolina, but we have a clue that…
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Testing the Vest Pocket Kodak Model B
I love these little Vest Pocket Kodaks. Â They are about the size of a Blackberry (twice as thick) folded up. Â Kodak made these starting in 1912, and continued until 1926. Â They were revolutionary at the time. Â As the first camera to use 127 rollfilm, about 4 centimeters long and the thickness of a magic marker,…
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Testing the Kodak Retina 1a
In today’s world of camera that are fully automatic, and only the hard-core photographer bothers to worry about and understand concepts such as aperture and ISO, managing to get decent photos from a camera where you must set everything manually can be fun and rewarding. Â So I loaded my newly-received Retina with a 36-exposure roll…