Articles Tagged with old cameras

The price of old things

Published on March 9, 2021March 8, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Market research

We ponder the economic future of the past.

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The portfolio review

Published on January 14, 2020January 13, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Going through the archives

Why is it that we almost never look back properly?

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Fixing old things

Published on November 5, 2019November 3, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Repairable still

When do you stop paying for repairs?

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Users and collectors

Published on July 9, 2019July 7, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The tribes sometimes cooperate

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

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Planned and unplanned

Published on March 19, 2019March 17, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Careful forethought vs. serendipity

Equivocal insights from photography.

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Why keep old things?

Published on November 6, 2018November 5, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Collectors and others

There are two types of people who retain old technology.

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Photography: the hard part

Published on June 19, 2018June 15, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

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

Published on January 2, 2018January 2, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Working manually

How much of your work is your own?

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Looking at and looking through

Published on November 28, 2017November 27, 2017 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Ways of seeing

What you see depends on how you look.

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The tools of a professional

Published on May 9, 2017May 9, 2017 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

A ladder is often essential

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

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