Articles Tagged with old cameras

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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Planned and unplanned

Careful forethought vs. serendipity

Equivocal insights from photography.

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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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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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The tools of a professional

A ladder is often essential

What a photographer needs to do the job is sometimes far from obvious.

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A surfeit of features

No one uses them all

Digital cameras, like calculators, have an immense menu of features.  It’s certainly rare, and possibly unknown, for anyone to use them all.  Why have them, then?

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Tools shape the artist

A choice of camera is unexpectedly important

Our photographic consultant finds that the camera he uses can have an unsubtle effect on the pictures he takes.

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