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Expired in 1938
I have a small archive of old Kodak Verichrome roll film I acquired some years ago. The rolls are all exposed and stored in original boxes: Expiration date in 1938: Bought in pharmacy in small...
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Eliott Erwitt
Eliott Erwitt died today. Here my photo of him peeking into the room before his lecture in Miami in 2014. Taken on Tri-X / Leica M2 I think.
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Fujifilm photo walk with Fujifilm X-Pro 3 camera + 16mm f/2.8 lens
Hello All, it had been a while since I posted here...things changed. In the government building where I work, the high security access had been implemented with X-ray machines and all the cavalry, it...
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Interview with Yamasaki Ko-Ji
Interesting interview with Yamasaki Ko-Ji, the photographer from Japan whose book "In Osaka" I published on Amazon in...
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DASCO bakelite and the Langoliers
DASCO was (and the one above still is) a bakelite toy camera from 40s. It is, in essence, a cheap piece of pressed plastic with few little metal and glass pieces. It was made for 127 roll film.The roll...
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Miami's Overtown
Overtown is a place just north of Downtown Miami.Its use to be a real black town up until early 60s when the major highways were build through the area; its mostly remnants of the past now, in a form...
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On Pakon film scanner
Been film scanner operator for ~20 years, I tried many Minoltas, Nikons, Epsons ugly ducklings. I settled on Epson V700 photo for preview and Nikon Coolscan V for the final scans. Using this combo for...
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Pacific Image scanners
I recently tested these two scanners from Pacific Image:Prime Film XE and Prime Film XA are also known as Reflecta ProScan 10T and Reflecta RPS 10M, respectively.Resolution-wise, they both can produce...
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"In Osaka": one year anniversary
Yamasaki Ko-Ji's book "In Osaka", published a year ago, had been sold on Amazon and in stores around the globe exactly (ta-dam!) 50 times. Which brings the total print run, including all the copies...
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The Night at Ocean
This Saturday I've got a chance to stroll the South Beach. The Ocean drive was packed with folks celebrating, flirting, kidding, snapping selfies. My Olympus XA died after years of exemplary service...
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Model A from Missouri
Univex model A was a camera. A very small camera.Here is one, next to my "Zorki 5":Three ounces of Bakelite with a bit of glass and a few metal parts.It was very popular among girls in early 30s,...
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118 Kodak Verichrome roll from 1940s
I received these rolls from a antique dealer in Fayetteville, North Carolina with 2 other rolls and spools of different vintage.The roll in the center never been exposed; the yellow color film (right)...
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Brownie Vecta from UK
I received this camera from the village North of Manchester, UKSmall Kodak Brownie Vecta had been in production from 1963 to 1966Like many other brownies, it has dark lens and one shutter speed, not...
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"In Osaka" by Yamasaki Ko-Ji at Leica Store Miami 08/20 at 7PM
Join us on Thursday, August 20, 2015 for a book presentation: "In Osaka" by Yamasaki Ko-Ji. Publisher Emir Shabashvili will present the book and talk about "Provoke" photographers and about style/time...
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11x14" Prints on Arista EDU Ultra RC paper
I'm out of Ilford MG IV paper and switched to Arista EDU Ultra. All I have now is 11x14 inches. Last weekend I printed a few frames from 2012 and they came out fine. The prints are somewhat more...
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Bessa L / 25mm / Red filter : new darkroom prints
Up until now I had just the digital scans and digital prints for this series of downtown street photographs from Oct 2008. Last week I printed them in darkroom, they came out good; better than...
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Summer pattern
I am really enjoying working in darkroom... Here is few more of the recent prints:
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"IN OSAKA" by Yamasaki Ko-Ji
So it happened: the >book is out<<. Yamasaki Ko-Ji is a photographer from Kobe, Japan. He documents his daily life with pictures taken mostly in Osaka, where he has a day job. His work is...
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Printing in dark room vs film-to-digital workflow
I started in darkroom in my early teens, somewhere in 68 or 69. Back then, everything was simple: not too many graded papers available, one developer, water from the tap, fixer and free time, which I...
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"In Osaka" by Yamasaki Ko-Ji
Yamasaki Ko-Ji is a photographer from Kobe, Japan. Here is a dummy of his book I am working on right now. Printed on laser printer to check the layout, it became a real one the moment I attached the...
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