Monthly Wrap-up September 2022

Curiosities, excesses, philosophy, and other tidbits.

One of my favorite film cameras, at least in the realm of compact 35mm.

Have you ever wondered about paper dimensions?

I certainly have wondered why various paper sizes are what they are. I’ve picked up a few answers here and there but this is a new one for me. Hey, I live in the US so letter size is the norm. Read on…

Why A4?

More Competitive?

Generally I think photographers are too competitive, mostly in trivial and banal ways. Here’s a take from a thoughtful guy that’s worth a listen.

Artists Should Be More Competitive?

For Those That Still Have A Passion For Film

I find cameras like this amusing and silly. At the same time I find the fact they are produced somewhat comforting. Far outside my budget, I do wonder how many get sold. I wonder even more if any are destined to make even one photograph. I have an old 8x10 Ansco camera but even the film is so expensive to preclude its use for me. I do have an old box of TRI-X 320 8x10 in the freezer…

A new designer 8x10 view camera?

Update On Our Baryta Paper Search

Stay tuned, we’ve been working on our evaluation of the popular and recommended baryta papers we asked all of you about a few weeks ago. We did run into a snag while making test prints that have delayed the effort. More on the results and the “snag” soon.

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