While a short-lived filmstock named “Ektar” existed in the 90’s, the current emulsion known as Kodak Ektar entered the market in 2008, when film photography was well on it’s way out of the mainstream. It’s also one of my very…
I’ve recently discovered cyanotype printing, a process discovered in 1842 by Sir John Herschel… because I’m obviously the last guy to hear about anything. Herschel used the process to reproduce texts and diagrams, like a 170-year-old Xerox machine, however the…
The Yashica Mat 124G was Yashica’s last and best TLR. Manufactured from 1970 to 1986, when the market was no longer looking for TLR cameras, Yashica built this model to similar standards as a Rolleiflex, figuring that while there might…
Winter is a reality in northern Vermont, where I spent most of my adult life. Winters are cold and wet here and seem to last forever. Even worse, skies are this murky gray color that defies most attempts at decent…
Gloucester, MA (pronounced locally as “GLAW-stuh”) is a quintessential New England fishing town on Massachusetts’ North Shore. Site of the film and book “The Perfect Storm” as well as several others, it has beaches and harbors and fisheries and whale…
Film photography has been getting steadily more popular over the past ten years or so, with former shooters as well as people new to the medium. The “why’s” are varied, but tend to follow the same trajectory as vinyl records.…
I had been shooting a Holga camera here and there, it was fun, but I wanted to explore the world of medium format photography in earnest, with an actual camera, not a plastic toy. So I professed my intentions on…
This summer has been super rainy, just all-the-time rain. So much rain that much of Vermont’s valleys have been flooding, including our capitol city. We made the national news for a minute, maybe you heard about it. There were a…
A friend of mine is a pro photographer. I have a number of those, of course, and they always shoot digital for the most part. So as we’re chatting cameras at a burlesque show he was working at (as a…
Street Pan 400 is a B&W film that was originally used in Belgian traffic surveillance. Resurrected and put back into production in 2016 by Japan Camera Hunter, it’s a film with good contrast and an extended red sensitivity which gives…