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Found Film: the Fun Begins
So in all of this business of acquiring really old cameras, here’s something I recently learned. Â There are lots of old cameras lying around in peoples’ attics that still have film in them. Â And frequently they end up on eBay or in collectible shops, without anyone checking if there is still film inside. Â This happened…
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Diptic: The Coolest Photo App Ever (With a Mediocre Name)
Ever want to share a bunch of photos, but couldn’t make up your mind which? Whether you post on Facebook or attach them to an email, it would be great to combine a bunch of related shots into a single image. The app, “Diptic” (available on Apple devices and Android) lets you do exactly that.…
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Camera Lucida – Get Yours Now!
What if you could use a simple device with a prism to “trace” an object on paper that was actually in front of you. Would this revolutionize how we do art? It turns out that according to theory, that’s exactly how many of the 19th Century masters created their great works of art. And a…
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Lomography: Remembering the 70s with a Ricoh Kr-5
I just got back the first set of photos from my “newest old camera”, a Ricoh Kr-5 dating from around 1975. Â It’s a thing of beauty, especially when I think of the cameras I personally owned in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Â It was a steal on eBay, coming with a “1970s brown” nylon…
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Check out Namibia’s ‘Shishani’
One of Namibia’s rising young talents needs your help! Namibian musicians have a hard time “breaking out” – primarily as a result of Namibia’s small population – just over two million, around the same size as the city of Houston! Â Namibia also has one of the biggest income disparities in the world, which means that…