Between the years of 1940 and 1951, the skilled craftspeople at the Leica factory in Wetzlar, Germany painstakingly hand-crafted and hand-assembled one hundred and thirty one thousand Model IIIc 35mm rangefinder type camera bodies. The vast majority of which featured no unusual markings, no rare customization. Just many thousands of perfectly mass produced, boringly precise […]
Read more "Tempered Indulgence, the Leica IIIc"What do you think of the Nikon F3? It’s probably Nikon’s most popular and certainly longest running professional grade camera body. They built these things from 1980 all the way to 2001, even while Nikon were simultaneously selling F4’s and F5’s. Apparently they made so many, that they lost count after nearly 800,000! Pretty incredible. […]
Read more "The F3, Nikon’s Greatest Achievement?"Volkswagen has announced that the last Beetles will roll off the assembly line in July of this year. Articles and social media are lit up with nostalgic tributes to this iconic automobile. After all, the world has been driving the Volkswagen Beetle since 1938. Well, not really. The revolutionary Porsche-designed 1938 Type 1 sedan differs […]
Read more "Good Riddance to the VW Beetle"Film photography websites are often dominated by male-centric camera fetish articles built on claims of indestructibility and a glorious history that seems to have concluded as shelf decor with occasional use. I love reading (and writing) about vintage film cameras and certainly reference all these sites when I’m on the market for a new piece […]
Read more "Lifestyle Film Photographer, Stephanie Bryan"What do House of Cards, Whale Wars, Michael Jackson’s Beat It, the Walking Dead, Parks and Recreation, Wedding Crashers, and Sex in the City 2 all have in common? I’ve photographed members of their casts and crews! Being a photographer is reason enough to be somewhere special and meet interesting people. If you shoot production […]
Read more "My Life As A Production Still Photographer"Unless you’re a studio photographer, the first time that most film shooters begin considering purchasing a light meter is when they fall in love with some beautiful vintage camera that does not feature a built-in light meter. When I was younger, I naively clung to cameras with built-in meters, not fully appreciating bodies such as […]
Read more "Metering the Meterless"My photographs, and probably your work too, are routinely stolen and republished all over the internet. I find it interesting to track my photos down through simple keyword and reverse image searches as well as with Pixsy.com. A neat plugin for Chrome allows you to simply left click an image and search for it across […]
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