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Pharma Film Review: Rossmann 200 & 400 35mm
09 Apr 2016
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Rossmann 3er Spar-Pack (2014)
There was a time when you could walk into any pharmacy and find an array of cheap 35mm film. Much of it was rebranded OEM film, some of it was cheaply-produced home brand stuff, but it was film nonetheless. Although the “1-HR PHOTOS” Kodak signs remain…
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Is There a Problem With Modern Lenses?
20 Mar 2016
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New and old(er). Is newer betterer?
In a rather surprising post, Petapixel (the patron saint of aggregated gear-oriented digital photographic clickbait) published (or reposted) an article challenging the photographic orthodoxy, the very orthodoxy that keeps the website in business through advertising.
In this article, photographer Yannick Khong argues the problem…
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Update: Pacific Image PF120 Pro Scanner Review
18 Mar 2016
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Note — October 2016:I have since parted ways with my PF120 Pro. After I received the repaired unit mentioned in this post, banding recurred. I then received a brand-new replacement unit from the distributor and promptly sold it. I am now scanning with an Epson V700. Find out more about…
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Things I Use: Voigtländer VC Meter II
13 Feb 2016
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I own quite a bit of photography gear, but I am not a collector. Every item I own I use at one point or another. When I travel, so do my cameras. As a result, some of my gear is a bit cosmetically (and sometimes operationally) blemished.
My Voigtländer VC…
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Hands-On Review with the Pacific Image PF120 Pro
21 Oct 2015
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The Pacific Image PF120 Pro (left) with the Nikon Coolscan LS-5000ED
Update — October 2016:
I have since parted ways with my PF120 Pro. It developed a severe banding problem, was sent off to Taiwan for repairs, and received back around 2 months later. This repaired unit also developed banding.…
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A Skeptical Approach to Cameras or: An Ode to the Leica M4-2
31 Aug 2015
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Leica M4-2 by Andrew J. Cosgriff
If you’ve gone hunting for a decent hi-fi setup anytime over the past two decades, chances are you have come across publications such as What Hi-Fi or Stereophile and cooed over their adjective-laden reviews of high-end equipment you’ve never heard of, “must-have” accessories you’ll…
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Buy Film Here
08 Aug 2015
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Long after most tourists swapped 35mm film for the selfie stick, the red and yellow of the Kodak logo remains stubbornly visible across the tourist traps of Europe. From shop facades, to windows; umbrellas to awnings, the red and yellow – most recently defined as Pantones 485 and 123 respectively…
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Travelling With Film, Part III: Buying and Processing
05 Aug 2015
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As we have discovered in the previous parts of this series, travelling with film overseas is not difficult. The simplicity of a mechanical camera and single lens can make the process of photography more than the just the lugging around of technology. Less is more. Now we look at how…
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Photobook Review: The Lost Border
05 Aug 2015
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This is the first of two reviews that follow along a similar path. Brian Rose’s The Lost Border: The Landscape of the Iron Curtain is a simply elegant book which visually charts that famous geopolitical fault line which existed in one form or another from 1946 until 1989.
Rose chronicles…
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About the Shot: Berlin
07 Jun 2015
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Buy a print and make Richard happy.
November 9, 2014: my first day back in Berlin. I wandered some 39km through the streets. It seemed most of the city was on the streets the day marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the ‘Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart’ otherwise known as…
