The Early Days of Digital
Photo by moaby, taken with the 1991 Kodak DCS 100 pictured Montréaler Marc Aubry's Ma Collection de Reflex Numérique, a collection of self-portraits taken with cameras from the early days of digital. If he had owned all those cameras when...
500 Cameras
Books of Interest Dept., Guilty Pleasures Division: 500 Cameras: 170 Years of Photographic Innovation from the folks at George Eastman House. A virtual tour through a veritable cornucopia of cameras of every imaginable type. Oddities, oldies, historical landmarks, and familiar...
Why Some People Hate Leica
(Note that shipping price, too.) Again, just sayin'. And, another reason why some people love Leicas, too.... Mike (Thanks to John Flores and Roland Ruehl) Send this post to a friend Please help support TOP by patronizing our sponsors B&H...
‘The Leica Compendium’ by Erwin Puts
Speaking of Leica, I'm afraid that one rare photography book I should have alerted you to has come and gone. It is Leica Compendium: The Company, the Camera, the Lenses, by Erwin Puts of Tao of Leica. The 602-page tome...
Instant Street Cred for Only Two House Payments
The title of the post is what Mike Plews commented when he sent me this link. Seems pretty cool, and also pretty silly, in just about equal measure...but also cool...but also silly.... Mike Send this post to a friend Please...
Wishful Thinking
Note the first sentence (click to embiggen)— The Revere Camera Co. of Chicago (I'd never heard of it before), originally founded in 1920 as a maker of radiators by an immigrant from Ukraine called Samuel Briskin, became mainly a manufacturer...
Meet Anthony Vizzari
Anthony Vizzari by Anthony Vizzari by Anthony Vizzari. Anthony Vizzari, photograph collector, camera collector, photo shop proprietor, and photobooth aficionado, is the subject of Philip Bloom's latest short. Not only is it about cameras and photographs, but it was shot...
Controversial List of Influential Cameras
Jason Schneider, former longtime editor of Popular Photography magazine and well known as a camera collector, has written an intriguing list of "The 14 Most Influential Cameras of All Time" at Adorama's site. As you can see from a glance...
Golf Clubs (Not Actually Off-Topic)
I have a pattern. (The young are so intense because they think everything that happens to them is unique, singular in their lives and in the history of the world. Us old goats—er, rather, us fit, dynamic, virile, sharp-as-a-tack middle-aged...
Medium Format, and Subject Fatigue
I've been at the lake for a few days now, taking it easy. Somewhat comically, I brought my 27" iMac with me. What can I say? I gave the laptop to my son last Christmas. He gets more use out...
L.F. Deardorff and Sons Rekindled
For large-format photographers, the name "Deardorff" has some of the same luminosity that the name "Leica" has for small-format photographers. Think of it as the Harley-Davidson of cameras. Will Whitaker, himself a large format man of sterling reputation, tells me...
The End of Leitz
Does anybody know of a site or page on the web that recounts in detail the ownership changes of Leica since the Leitz family sold the company in 1986? I haven't dug very deep yet, but I'm not having a...
