Film photography depends on cameras that are no longer made. We asked two repair shops what decides whether one can still be fixed.
We explore zone focusing using the Rollei 35S. Learning to judge distance can be made easier by imagining an arm’s length and one memorized measurement. With practice it will become automatic.
We explore zone focusing using the Rollei 35S. Learning to judge distance can be made easier by imagining an arm’s length and one memorized measurement. With practice it will become automatic.
Making the case for half-frame and why choosing it might make a whole lot of sense.
Part One helped you choose a way to scan film at home. Here we explain which settings to finalize and which steps to repeat every session, so each scan follows what you have already worked out.
Sontag's 1964 case for describing a work of art before deciding what it means, in a PDF of the complete essay.
A 1977 classroom recording, nearly two hours long, of Garry Winogrand answering students' questions in Houston. Two stretches of it caught our attention: Walker Evans and transparency, and what an SLR viewfinder does to a picture.
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