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Tag Archives: vintage cameras
Twelve Months, Twelve Cameras, Twelve Decades…and One Film. #ATG365
In August 2017, the hosts of podcast Against the Grain discussed photographers’ tendency to immediately look at photos they’ve shot (chimping) and how film photography slows the process down, resulting in an increased emphasis on capturing the photo, without constantly worrying about … Continue reading
Posted in film processing, Photography, general, Vintage cameras
Tagged 365, 400, Against the Grain, antique, chimping, decades, film photography, Kodak, tri-x, vintage cameras
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Ansco B2 Cadet: Photography with an Old Box Camera
Sure, today’s fancy digital cameras have a lot of tricks to ensure your photos turn out picture-perfect. But compared to the simplicity of an old box camera like Ansco’s B2 Cadet, the photos aren’t THAT much better! Basically a wooden … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage cameras
Tagged 120, Agfa, ansco, B2 Cadet, black and white, Namibia, Photography, shipwreck, Skeleton Coast, vintage cameras
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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. This is the … Continue reading
First photos from an 80-year-old box camera
Some time ago my oldest daughter picked up an old Kodak box camera at a yard sale, and it sat ignored on a shelf for years until I decided to get my hands on some 120 film and an old 620 … Continue reading
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Tagged black and white, box camera, Kodak six-20, vintage cameras
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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. There are lots of old cameras lying around in peoples’ attics that still have film in them. And frequently they end up on eBay … Continue reading
Posted in Found Film, Vintage cameras
Tagged exposed film, found film, old film, vintage cameras, vintage film
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