My passion for old photographic equipment compelled me to create this blog. I do follow a great number of other posts dealing with photographic equipment, old and new. In the past years, however, I felt something was missing – or I just did not find it. There are a few blogs I like that go very deep into the various aspects of using photographic equipment and they mostly deal with new equipment.
In the past years I’ve been very pleased to witness the rise of use of film for photographs from the deep pit it did fall by the end of the first decade of this millennium. There are more and more young people learning to use film for their images and that makes me happy. There are some older people also increasing their use of film. I never stopped using film but only in the past years I have fully grasped the pleasure there is to plan ahead and patiently wait for the image first appear on film and then try to construct a final picture in darkroom or digitally.
Photography for me is a way of life that I have had ever since I was born. My father was a photographer and his father was a photographer. My grandfather started at five as an apprentice to a photographer from St. Petersburg. He taught my father to photography and my father taught me. I am trying to bridge yet one generation by teaching my daughter all she is willing to learn from me of photography.
In this blog I bring up various old cameras and other photographic equipment at the pace I can among my other responsibilities. There have been long pauses, I hope to be able to have consistency to this but life is full of surprises and I want to enjoy of this also. I have a framework in my posts but it evolves.
The thing I have mostly missed reading similar blogs about old cameras is going deep in the subject. Most commercial reviews these days are pressed with time. That reflects also to writings of ordinary people, hobby bloggers, so that sometimes only first impressions are reported and an interesting subject is only superficially dealt with. Half a century ago testing cameras in publications like the British Journal of Photography were the result of thorough testing of months. Currently even the thorough tests of new equipment are done fast and lack the insight a long time use brings.
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