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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Eight Legendary Darkroom Tools Most Photographers Under 40 Have Never Seen

Making a single black-and-white print used to take a locked room, a red bulb, and roughly eight specialized tools that have almost no equivalent on a modern desk. If you started sh...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

The First Photo Ever Transmitted by Wire, and the Machine That Sent It

In October 1906, a portrait of the German Crown Prince left Munich as nothing more than a flickering electric current, fought through roughly 1,800 kilometers' worth of telegraph l...

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phsc.ca /1 month ago

flivver …

Toronto. By the time this photo was taken, the ‘more modern’ automobiles had been around for two or three decades. Collectors of old photos likely think autos are too new yet moder...

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phsc.ca /3 weeks ago

shine a light on me

Toronto. When film/plates were the way to go, ISO (ASA) ratings on the media were so slow professionals and advanced amateurs used studio lights (or flash) to soften shadows and al...

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petapixel.com /1 week ago

This Forgotten 30-Year-Old Digital Camera Predicted the Future

James Warner, the photographer behind the YouTube channel snappiness, has gotten his hands on yet another bizarre piece of camera history. This time it's the EPixPro, or is it the...

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phsc.ca /1 month ago

all in a row

Toronto. Many collectors specialize in various kinds of old photos. Some like group photos and the gear used to take them. A cropped wide angle shot, a panoramic shot etc can recor...

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121clicks.com /2 weeks ago

47 Remarkable Photos From the 2026 Analog Sparks Awards That Celebrate the Magic of Film

Film photography has something special that digital cameras just can’t quite replicate. From beautiful grain and rich tones to unexpected moments of magic, analog photography makes...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

The First Photographs on Every Continent: Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica

The earliest surviving camera photograph of any continent is a grainy rooftop view that Nicéphore Niépce recorded in the Burgundy countryside in 1826 or 1827, and burning it onto a...

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121clicks.com /1 month ago

Timeless Frames: 40 Legendary Black-and-White Photos That Still Feel Powerful Today

Certain photographs have no need for colour in order to attract you. All you have to do is add a bit of light, a human face, a peaceful street, or a fleeting moment from everyday l...

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fstoppers.com /3 weeks ago

When Photography Was Illegal: A History of Camera Bans, From Trains to Courtrooms

At a fashionable beach resort in the 1890s, a posted notice reportedly warned bathers about a brand-new menace with blunt words: "PEOPLE ARE FORBIDDEN TO USE THEIR KODAKS ON THE BE...

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sixtyandme.com /1 month ago

How to Bring an Old Family Photo to Life, and When Not To

My cousin posted an old photograph on Facebook a few weeks ago. It was of my father, in his early 20s, sitting there in a sweater, a white shirt, a skinny tie, and a tweed jacket....

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analog.cafe /2 days ago

Is tri-colour scanning worth it?

Photography turned 200 years old in 2026, but the process of scanning and inverting the negatives is relatively new. Even younger are digital camera scanning methods. And the young...

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newyorker.com /1 week ago

The First Candid

In 1838, Louis Daguerre snapped a photo of a Parisian street, empty but for a shoeshine boy and his client. Now that some sleuths have zeroed in on the location, the city is markin...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

The Story of The Earliest Known Surviving Photo of a Person

Look at the picture and you see an empty Paris street. Wide sidewalks, a row of trees, tall buildings, and almost no sign of life on what should have been a busy morning. Then your...

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121clicks.com /3 weeks ago

Reclaiming Color: 45 Rare Archival Photos That Show What Life Looked Like 30-100 Years Ago

There’s something almost magical about seeing the past in color. Black-and-white photographs can feel distant and historical, but early color photos suddenly make yesterday look su...

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121clicks.com /1 month ago

The Art of Seeing in Black and White: 45 Iconic & Timeless Photographs

There’s something about a great black and white photograph that makes you stop scrolling. No bright colors. No fancy filters. Just light, shadow, faces, textures, and a moment that...

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phsc.ca /1 month ago

camera art

Toronto. Collectors search diligently for pristine copies of select cameras. Other versions and less pristine versions are also collected and later sold to upgrade the collection....

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phsc.ca /1 week ago

fair fun

Toronto. As our fall fair date approaches, We asked exhibitors to send photos/videos of goods featured for sale. Les Jones sent this photo at left of a c1880 Photosphere camera as...

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Church interiors

DrMarkH: Meanwhile this aging brain is testing its synapses by trying to remember the name of a brand of photographic paper that gave a cold blue tint to b/w analogue photos - pro...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Joseph Petzval Calculated the First Fast Portrait Lens in 1840 and Watched Someone Else Get Rich

By May 1840, a mathematics professor in Vienna had finished a lens before a single piece of glass had been ground for it. Petzval worked the design out on paper, with a squad of ar...

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petapixel.com /1 month ago

I Found a Famous Photographer’s Early Print for Just $5 in an Antique Store

What started with a $5 photograph sitting on a shelf in a Florida antique store turned into a 76-year journey back through the early career of one of the 20th century’s most respec...

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Church interiors

Not answers from myself to that query. Another aside though. I remember my Father taking B&W photos at some family events, doing all processing and printing himself, and then t...

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thisiscolossal.com /1 month ago

France Celebrates the Bicentennial of Photography with Traveling Themed Exhibitions

In our era of digital screens and virtually endless images and videos, it's a challenge to imagine the time before photography existed. Do stories and artists like this matter to...

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theguardian.com /3 days ago

Light, camera razor blades&quest;! How photography became an art form in pictures - Photography

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