Category: Vintage – 2nd hand
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A Soviet Photoshop
A little historical gem: Soviet Russia had found a way to automate the photo image retouching jobs before the invention of Photoshop but with the help of a rotary scanner. YouTube link
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Full titanium Leica M9
Just for the pleasure of the eyes:
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Hasselblad on sale at NASA
It seems that NASA found a steady source of minor income by selling all kinds of equipments to fans. Today, this is an impressive Hasselblad camera in full NASA regalia that is on sale on eBay. Price is currently near US$34000.
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Photography, so many failures!
photo credit: davidgsteadman When buying a photo camera, we often research in order to decide if this is the best camera, if its features will be goo enough, but will it be robust enough? Will it be useful or necessary to purchase a warranty contract extension? Will it fail very soon? When somebody asks me…
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Vintage photo cameras
It’s been years that I fell in love with the excellent Dark Roasted Blend web site. Today, I found a nice post showing some of the most beautiful vintage photo cameras they could find. Recommended visit if you have a couple of minutes to spend.
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Photo fakery in History
Even before Photoshop was available, some photographers tried to improve their photos. Sometimes, it was to clean little blemishes, but it could go to quite significant upgrades: removing somebody form a group portrait (like with chairman Mao, below), putting a better body under the head of VIP, etc. Source: NY Times.
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The ugliest photo camera
To follow up on a previous post, here are the ugliest photo cameras I could find (with the very active assistance of The Online Photographer, I have to admit):
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Pencil drawing: Vintage cameras
Christine Berrie is a pencil artist whose work can be astonishing. If you are in vintage cameras, you’ll probably love her vintage camera poster. And you can buy the poster at Etsy.
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Photo gear on a budget
Michael Zhang has a good set of advice to provide to help us all buy a lot of pro camera gear on a student budget. This is quite attractive because most photo enthusiasts quickly notice that the only limitation to our photo expenses is the money we can invest into it. Let’s admit it, there…