…and then I thought… I wonder how much camera film was sold last year? If Film Cameras are Dead, is this Blog a Bad Idea? Now I think I know how people felt in the year 1900 who sold custom horse carriages. Perhaps a bit obsolete. Maybe. A Billion Rolls of Film now just 20 Million a…
I own two cameras that I will never sell. One camera is a Canon AE-1 and the other camera is a Nikkormat FT2. Paul’s Nikkormat FT2 is shown below. It has a small dent on its 50mm lens, perhaps dropped on safari in Africa. Paul’s Africa Nikkormat The Nikkormat FT2 traveled to Africa in 1975…
I prefer my Canon A35F over my Canonet 28 if I’m grabbing a quick camera for some shots. They’re both very good. It’s just that the Canon A35F is normally cheaper than the Canonet 28. Have you read about the Canonet 28? Have you ever seen the movie named Pecker about the rise and stumble…
This is my review for a like new Yashica Lynx 1000 that is over 50 years old. To be brief, if you can purchase it at a good price and it works, enjoy. It’s a nice rangefinder. Here’s a taste of what a Yashica Lynx 1000 can do with ASA 200 speed film. Yashica Lynx…
Visiting the Salvation Army on weekends for film cameras is both a pleasure and a sadness. First the sadness. Count Your Blessings when you visit the Salvation Army At first when I visited the huge Salvation Army store on Clybourn Avenue in Chicago, IL, it was a candy store of cameras given away by their…
This blog article could have had many titles. But ultimately it’s a blog article about how photography can enrich your life, and the lives of others. I’d like to become a better photographer. I don’t obsess about it, but I do own about 10 photography books that I read again and again. (I think it’s…
Film cameras have a provenance. And that makes buying them fun. Provenance Defined You’ve heard the phrase provenance on many TV shows about auctions, art, collectibles. This is what Wikipedia says about provenance. Provenance, from the French provenir, “to come from”, refers to the chronology of the ownership or location of an historical object.[1] The…
I love this old camera. It brings out the German-American in me. Thank you to Karen Nakamura of Photoethnography I learned of this German delight courtesy of Karen Nakamura’s Photoethnography website. If you like film cameras, especially film cameras, you need to visit the Photoethnography Equipment page. Very good technical details of this camera are…
Why do we collect cameras? Like many things, it is both simple and complex. Camera Collecting is Simply Fun How do you define fun? Ask a kid, what does he or she say? When I was older than 5 but less than 10 years old, I would play “fort” with my friends in Skokie, Illinois. …