So the Last pigs in blanket has been scoffed and my port bottle has been running dry. So it feels like time to look back over 2024 from a film and lo fi digital point of view. We’ve court battles, new gear a plenty and Gen Z nicking all the budget digicams. As well as an unhealthy obsession with 2:1 cameras. Oh and we’ve my annual awards and predictions.
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Using Optical filters with a Paper Shoot
In a Facebook group I’m in, someone asked what size of filters a Paper Shoot (PS) takes. Truth be told there’s little info on that. But in fact the current cases take a 26mm filter thread.
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Cappy Camera is canned
Last night I got an email from shopify, informing me my Cappy Camera order had been cancelled. It was no glitch. Cappy cameras is no more bringing to end a rather sorry saga in the lo-fi digital community
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A Brief History of Photography by Objects – 16 – Colour print Of Agen, France Printed ~1950’s
You might be wondering what a run of the mill colour photo is doing here. A photo from a time when colour photography was well established. But this print was made from a the negatives used to make a colour print in 1877 ! But involves a Journey involving a Scotsman, Lots of Frenchmen, a Swiss Badass painter, Murderous Highwaymen, an abandoned wife and a dubious preacher
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The New Vintage – Meet the Camp Snap 1.03B
In my recent group test of lo-fi digital which the older 1.01 Camp Snap won, I did point out there was newer improved model and that I could have shot with a vintage filter firmware. Literally a week after getting home my new Camp Snap 1.03B turned up and was interestingly preloaded with the vintage film firmware. So time to uncork and sample.
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Paper shoot out – Big trouble in Paper Shoot land
Most of you will have heard of the Paper Shoot. Arguable the most successful Lo-Fi Digital brand of the last decade. But there been a big falling out in the land of the eco-friendly, swappable covers. Which has been a tad messy and led to a potential new camera. Time to spill the beans
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Just how much should a new camera cost ?
So Pentax gave us their first film camera in around 2 decades. Whilst there has been much rejoicing. There has also been quite a lot of moaning – much of which has to do with the price of the Pentax 17. And one suspects the same comment will come with the Rollei 35AF
But is that a fair comment or wishful thinking ?
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Reload and replay – Reloaded Ilfocolor Rapid Half Frame single use results
I was pleasantly surprised by Ilford Imaging’s half frame single use. But when I reviewed it I hadn’t finish a roll I shot in the reloaded Ilfocolor. But I have now, Ironically using Ilford Photo (aka Harman) B&W film. Here’s the results.
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A Brief History Of Photography By Objects -15- Photograph of a Prince, 1869
You’re probably wondering why a photograph of a minor member of the Victorian British royal family features here. Prince Arthur was captured using by then well established photography techniques. Nor was Arthur a photographic innovator. But it is what the image was then used for. A revolution in print & news coverage.
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Copying is not flattery. Why does Photography Newspaper keep copying other websites without permission rather than write their own stuff ?
I was altered by a fellow blogger that my posts were being scalped and posted as original content by a website called Photography Newspaper. This happens for time to time and pretty quickly these sites disappear but it’s annoying to see your content used without permission. So how did I fight back ?
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