Photography & Vintage Film Cameras

A new addition to the list of blogs I visit daily is James Kightly's Vintage Aeroplane Writer . I thought his photos of the spruce-clad ...

I don't go to many films, but I couldn't pass up this one. Director: Jan Troell Set in early 1900s Sweden, a young working class wom...

The camera used to make these photos was the Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim. I got my first one on ebay for $10. The next two cost 99 cents...

The three portraits were made with my 1950 Argus Argoflex 40. This model looks like the later Argus 75, but it has a full-focusing 75mm Coa...

These images from a local truck stop were made with my No. 1-A Folding Pocket Kodak Special, which is about 100 years old. Like my No...

The photography of Vivian Maier was recently discovered by John Maloof who purchased an archive of her photographs at an antiques auction ...

The early Kodak Brownie folding cameras are very capable shooters, but one doesn't see many pictures made with them, even by vintage c...

The little Zeiss four-lens kit at the lower left was used for both of the above photos. The leaf litter shot was made with the 0.2m. T...

This saltwater croc and another just like it were put on display recently at the Rio Grande Zoo. It is about fifteen feet in length.

I came across an interesting little article while browsing through the blog of the Western Photographic Historical Society about Kodak desi...

I acquired two more nice examples of the Voigtländer Vito II.  I have some film in one of the Vitos now and hope to have some new photo...

I've attempted four or five times to clean up my old Contaflex 1. The last try seems to have gotten the shutter and aperture mech...

I'm super pleased with the quality of the first images from my Argoflex 40, a bakelite twin lens camera from the 1950's. ...

The restoration team held an open house this morning to show off their progress on the locomotive. The Santa Fe 2926 was...