I noticed in my hometown paper that I have been part of a recent consumer trend: increasing demand for outdated equipment, like wind-up watches, and film cameras. I’m trendy, all right, guilty on both counts! If you happen to be fond of excellently made but technologically obsolete cameras you may be interested in the following [...]
A neighbor gave me a good old Minolta manual focus camera a while ago (an SRT 101), so I decided to put a couple of rolls through it, and was pleased with the outcome. Then, since I already had a collection of good Nikon lenses, I decided to buy a Nikon F3, which was produced [...]
On a recent Meet-up outing to the beautiful little town of Chesapeake City, Maryland, I tagged along with my Brandywine Photo Collective friend, Gerry Meekins, to learn how he shoots with a vintage 4×5 camera. (That’s photog speak for four inches by five inches, the most popular negative size for large format photography). What is [...]
