Tag: Vintage
Shadow & Light Monthly #4
Shadow & Light is a list of curated photography stories, features, techniques, news and inspiration that I’ve come across this month.
This month sees behind the scenes at Leica, game-changing sporting video technology from Canon, hidden stories in vintage cameras and wonderful street photography depicting life up north.
Shadow & Light Monthly #3
Shadow & Light is a list of curated photography stories, features, techniques, news and inspiration that I’ve come across this month.
This month sees stories about turning skyscrapers into giant cameras, looking at a moment in time from multiple points of view, uncovering the secrets behind old school camera technology and stunning images of marine life.
Shadow & Light Monthly #2
Shadow & Light is a list of curated photography stories, features, techniques, news and inspiration that I’ve come across this month.
This month sees stories about professional photographers shooting on toy cameras, sliced and diced cameras as art projects, portraits from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and an incredible story about how one man photographed his own transplant team 17 years before they saved his life.
Repairing a vintage Canon Canonet QL19 film camera
As you may know, I have a small collection of vintage film cameras. While I very rarely shoot film these days they remind me of when I first fell in love with photography as a kid, shooting film and processing and printing in my own darkroom. In the disposable world of digital it’s sometimes easy to forget that photography is actual magic.
Last year I picked up an old Canon Canonet QL19 which, like most copies you’ll find, was exhibiting the common ‘stuck shutter’ problem. The lens elements appear to have been originally held in place with some kind of laquer which, over the years, seems to dry up and flake off getting stuck in the blades in the process. As this camera’s over 50 years old it’s not surprising that it’s a pretty common problem.
Metadata circa 1915. How Kodak’s Autographic Cameras allowed you to ‘sign’ your negatives
In the digital age we take metadata for granted. In the fraction of a second that we press the shutter the camera doesn’t just capture the image but a whole host of additional information – the camera being used, the lens, the focal length, the ISO, shutter, aperture, the date, time and in some cases the GPS co-ordinates of the location where the image was captured.
We can add to these quickly and easily, permanently marking our images with keywords and descriptions that help us to organise a growing library. In the modern world data really is king.
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