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Testing the Kodak Brownie No. 0 Model A
It seems that camera naming conventions have never been simple.  The Kodak Brownie No. 0 Model A was manufactured between 1914 and 1935.  It was a small cardboard/wood and box camera with a rotary shutter and two reflecting finders. It sold for $1.25 and is said to take remarkably sharp 6 by 4 cm exposures, “if
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Processing Your Own Film
I recently had a query from someone on whether I would teach him how to process his own film. Â Unfortunately I’ve only been at it for about 9 months, far too short to be in any position to teach on the subject. Â But I can share what I know so far – and thought I’d
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Found Film Friday: New Year’s Road Trip 1994
…and just like that, we go from “class”…to a little bit crass. Â After weeks of posting historically meaningful post-war photos that were rescued from oblivion, we have a roll of pictures that looks like it was snapped on a three-day college drinkfest that involved a bus, a bar, and what looks like a bunch of
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Gypsies in India
We regularly join “photowalks” here in Chennai, and were surprised to hear we were going to visit a “gypsy colony.” A bit of googling informed me that the “Roma” people speak a language closely related to Hindi, and are thought to originate somewhere in or near India. Here they are not known as Roma people;
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It’s Jackfruit Season in India!
-Wait, what’s a jackfruit??? You may know, but we didn’t, before we moved to India.  And if I had ever encountered one on a tree, I certainly wouldn’t know what to do with it!  Take a look at these pictures. Weird, right?  And they’re huge! Jackfruits are one of the “big 3” most auspicious fruits