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World AIDS Day, 2011

God bless all of the talented and loved friends, family, and colleagues who have died because of HIV and AIDS. Click for an amazing image

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$35k for a Titanium Leica

For whom is the Leica M9 “Titan” built for? “Proposterous!”, I say. Sure, titanium is a strong material, but $34,999 USD seems a bit steep. Could the Leica marketing department have used a bad calculator when converting from Deutschmarks to dollars? Could the design team have been punking the finance people, with regard to the [...]

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Oops, we’re back!

Our apologies for being down for awhile. The technical problems seemed too much for our hosts to handle, and our other projects prevented us from digging into the problem. But we’re back with lost to share. Thanks for checking back in!  Axel

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Hasselblad Sold to Europe’s Ventizz

Hasselblad is now owned by a European company again (German) who purchased the legendary camera company from Hong Kong’s Shirro Group. The press release can be found here. It is said that the demand for Hasselblad V system equipment has been on the rise, not that Ventizz plans to focus on film cameras. With Ventizz’ [...]

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New Ilford MG Art 300 Available Soon in US!

My darkroom has been buzzing after the test of Ilford MG Art 300. Now Freestyle is announcing it should be available in their store by the end of March. That means I better step up my analysis of this new paper, but I can tell you it is stunning.  Pre-ordering is available through Freestyle, as [...]

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Japanese design and the Nikon F

I found these two videos very interesting—much more so than just being about Nikon cameras. Nikon was key in developing quality cameras that were desired the world over, developing the first SLR cameras. Because the Japanese Yen had no value after the war, the only way the country could get food and other essential commodities [...]

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If I only had a Nickel

for every time I tickled a penguin. This has nothing to do with photography, but it’s too cute not to post.

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