Articles Tagged with Leica

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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“Outside the proper scope”

What you can do, and what you should do

manualIn the Five Colors Science & Technology library of photography are a number of old books that we still find interesting. Apart from details of procedures and chemistry that are hard to find elsewhere, they show the different ideas, through the years, of just what was a good photograph.

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The anti-selfie

Candid photography (for the expert)

leicaIIIiWe turn again to the theme of technology transforming society, or at least one part of it.  With the invention of the 35mm still camera about a quarter of the way into the twentieth century, a whole area of life was suddenly opened up to photography.  That was not the intention of the inventor, who was only looking for a lighter-weight way to take pictures himself.

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