Film photography

Fixing old things

Rolleiflex TLR camera

Repairable still

When do you stop paying for repairs?

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Users and collectors

The tribes sometimes cooperate

Why would you keep an example of old technology?  And how?

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Why keep old things?

Collectors and others

There are two types of people who retain old technology.

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Photography: the hard part

Keeping track

It’s still the same task, digital or film.  And it is still not done well, sometimes at all, by most photographers.

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The pot, the photograph and the on-line video

Following directions

Old cast iron and new social media.

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A hands-on process

Working manually

How much of your work is your own?

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Looking at and looking through

Ways of seeing

What you see depends on how you look.

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Local color

An exercise with the company title

We present some results from our investigation into color photography.

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The photographer, the painter and the scientist

Realism and creativity

Art and science are tied to reality in different ways, as are artists and scientists.

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Junk mail

Making things easy

New technology often makes a task much easier to do.  That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s done better.

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