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Toronto. Old photo collectors search diligently for photos that complement their collections. Travel scenes are often enthusiastically collected since many more studio scenes and...
It is amazing how easy a selfie is today. By the time I was a teen I was very interested in photography. My mother sparked the interest with her "Brownie" that was always used f...
Toronto. The early colour processes were usually additive and as such incredibly slow. In to the mid last century the alternative was to take a good B&W portrait and colour it...
Before digital filters, ultra-sharp mirrorless cameras, and endless scrolling feeds, photography lived in the raw beauty of black and white. These historic monochrome images weren’...
A new exhibit celebrates the golden beauty of the classic orotone photo print, giving the eye-catching but short-lived photographic printing process more time in the spotlight. [Re...
Available in a bi-lingual English-Dutch edition, this journey through the development of early photography provides a fascinating insight into the origins and development in Belgiu...
Toronto. It’s fair time once again. The example at left from our fall fair in 2001. The Teleca is one of the popular combination binoculars and camera. At the time, I had a 7×50 pa...
Old photographs of New York stir up a surprising amount of feeling. Perhaps it’s catching a glimpse of Times Square before neon lights and digital billboards dominated the scene. M...
Long before smartphones and front cameras ruled the world, photographers were already taking selfies just with more grit, style, and patience. In the early days of photography, mir...
Toronto. A famous catch phrase by the Great Yellow Father in Rochester NY was “A Kodak Moment” meaning a special happy family situation worthy of a photograph. In this case, it mea...
Toronto. Image collectors can categorize pictures like that shown at left as ‘travel’, ‘water’, ‘canal’, ‘boats’ or even other names. The photograph was shot c1892 by Italian Paolo...
Toronto. … to start a collection. While the very old and very rare cameras and images may be priced a bit too high for your pocket, there are many others that are still reasonable....
ChrisMann: However I found the whole film thing too much of a faff - and of course the SQai’s square format was not a good choice for landscapes! Plus the image quality was frankl...
Toronto. The digital era is now decades old, making the collection of digital cameras attractive. In the future, film cameras will be a rarity. Those who collect digital cameras to...
When Leica ushered in the era of 35mm photography over a century ago, it did not immediately offer a coupled rangefinder (that came in 1932). Precise focusing was difficult with ea...
A photographer believed to have taken the very first portrait of the British Royal Family has been honored with a blue plaque in the English city of Brighton. [Read More]
Film photography photo challenge The theme for our April Editor's photo challenge was "Film Photography." This month, we returned to the analog roots of photography: film. D...
Toronto. In issue 27-3, George Dunbar raises a now familiar alarm in his article, “Preservation of Invisible Photographs in the 21st Century”. As George points out, the digital era...
Here's the thing with photography: you can take a mundane photo and think, 'Why did I take that?' But years later, that same photo is a fascinating artifact from a bygone era. [Rea...
Black and white photography strips away the noise and goes straight for the gut. No colors to distract, just raw emotion, light, shadow, and story. When film was king, the legends...
The BBC has been sharing footage from its archives on YouTube, and one video caught our attention. The clip is from the Tomorrow's World programme, and it was originally broadcast...
Toronto. For over 30 years now, light values have been of little interest, especially to those brought up on digital technology. Built-in metering and very fast sensitive media aut...
There’s something wildly powerful about old black-and-white photos of kids; they don’t just show moments, they feel like memories you somehow lived. These 33 vintage photos of chil...
A new exhibition will examine how generations of photographers have captured mining and industry in the United States, from early daguerreotypes depicting the California Gold Rush...
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