This weekend I was visited by an old friend from my photojournalism days. I wanted to do some printing with him in my darkroom, and see what he knew since we last worked together so many decades ago. It turns out, I’ve come a long way after those days of overexposing the print, dumping in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »$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 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Superb Cameras Coming to Auction at WestLicht’s
Maybe you are in need of more hardware to shoot with. Well, WestLicht Auctions has one of the coolest collection of cameras I’ve seen them offer, including the earliest known Nikon camera known to exist (maybe you have one of the the two earlier, unknown cameras). Or, if you can stretch your budget a bit, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Sotheby’s Photo Auction Results
Sotheby’s announced the results of their April 6 Photographs Auction, which raised over $5.6m for 141 lots sold, of the 173 offered. Man Ray’s 1933 photograph Untitled (Photomontage with Nude and Studio Lamp), sold for an astounding $410,500! It is thrilling to see photography being so widely accepted into the modern art market. Several all [...]
Read the rest of this entry »A $3 Gadget that Saves Big Time and Money
Do you ever see a tool that makes you wonder why you’ve never noticed it before? I do this all the time when I go into my local Harbor Freight; I could spend hours in there. Now back in the darkroom: I’ve spent decades trying to balance funnels while pouring chemicals in and out of [...]
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