This weekend I’m going to take a Cambo 4×5 out for a test drive.  This is the first time I’ve touched a large format camera and I’m hoping that using a polaroid back and referring to largeformatphotography.info as well as Horenstein’s celebrated B&W 102 text, Beyond Basic Black and White Photography will be enough to [...]

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Originally I picked up the Russian made Zenitar 16mm lens for my Pentax K100D as a way to get a very wide angle lens without shelling out a great deal of money.   The K100D has a 1.5 crop factor which gets you an approximate 24mm lens.  As I refuse to buy digital only lenses my [...]

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I have a nice tripod.  Its not a really nice tripod but its nice enough.  For $100 at Adorama its the kind of nice my budget approves of.  This is aimed at an audience that either can’t afford a carbon fiber tripod with ball head or can but haven’t been able to justify spending more [...]

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Now we’ll turn out attention to how the Holga 120WPC performs in the field. I took the Holga out into the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and Prospect Park, two areas which I’m very familiar with.   I brought a couple of rolls of Fuji Acros 100 and a single roll of Fuji Astia 100F, a slide film [...]

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I love panoramic photography but I’m unable to afford a “decent” camera. My previous review of the Horizon Perfekt covered a highly functional but still lomotastic 35mm panoramic camera.  Despite its odd optical characteristics (due to the rotating lens) I’ve been generally very happy with the camera and am saving up for a film holder [...]

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Photography is a wonderfully democratic form of art. You point, you point, you shoot, you get a print.  The digital revolution has made it even easier, you point, you shoot, you email your shots to your friend or post it to your blog.  If you want to kick it old school, fire off 36 frames [...]

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After explaining the limitations of the Lubitel 166U I thought I would take some time to explain why I still use the camera and my tips for getting good, usable negatives out of it. After dishing out the harshness I went out to the Botanical Garden in the below freezing temperatures to give my battered [...]

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Sunday was NYC’s annual Chinatown New Year Parade. It was also that Superdull thing but if I wanted to watch a bunch of brawny guys going at each other I have a copy of Querelle at home.   More importantly to this blog it was the first time I really got to take my new (to [...]

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I was initially excited when I heard about the new Lubitel 166U+. I’ve owned a Lubitel 166U for a number of years and while I’ve enjoyed our time together there are a number of issues that grates on my nerves.  Any relationship that brings you into a close working situation with someone for any amount [...]

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Sunday I took over 25 pounds of SLR  bodies and lenses down to Adorama in NYC and converted it (along with a fat stack of cash on my part) into a Voightlander Bessa R3A with the Nokton 40mm f/1.4 lens.   A huge amount of shelf space is now reduced to something that’s not much bigger [...]

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