Classic Camera Revival

Classic Camera Revival - Episode 86 - The Red Dot Pt. 2

In a continuation from the last episode, Bill and James are again joined by Marwan from SilverGrain Classics. In today's episode, we'll be talking about the cameras that disrupted Leica's little kingdom of Rangefinders, the SLR. And the fact that despite not wanting anything to do with them, Lecia would be forced kicking and screaming into the SLR market with mixed results.

Classic Camera Revival - Episode 85 - The Red Dot Pt. 1

Join Bill, James, and Marwan (of SilverGrain Classics) as they discuss the first of two episodes focusing on Leica cameras. In the first part we discuss the whole history of the iconic M-Series of rangefinders from the classic M3 to the modern MP and M-A cameras and everything in between!

Classic Camera Revival - Episode 84 - A Sit Down with Aly

If there's one thing that is certain in the day of interconnectivity and social media, film photographers tend to find each other and today Bill sits down with one of those connections, Aly from the Blog and YouTube Channel, Aly's Vintage Camera Alley. Bill and Aly talk on the subject of camera collecting, film photography, and more!

Classic Camera Revival - Episode 83 - Living in a Box

James sits down with Neil Piper of the Soot & Whitewash Photography Podcast for an in-depth discussion on his photography journey.  The pair discuss Neil’s perspective on art and photography and Project Box Camera.  Not focused on any camera(s) in particular, this episode is truly out of the box!

Classic Camera Revival - Episode 82 - Compact Nation

In our second part of our isolation podcasts, Alex discusses the Nikon FM and Nikon FE, two cameras that came out in the aftermath of the Olympus OM-System. The history behind these cameras, how they compare and their use in the field. Also, we welcome long time member of the Toronto Film Shooters Meetup and member of the Mississauga Leatherworkers Guild Mr Mark Rossi to discuss his own leatherworking business and the creation of Due North Leather. Due North, as you may know, is producing fine leather camera straps for a reasonable cost!

Classic Camera Revival - Episode 81 - Living in Stereo

After our recent shelf queen episode (in which John spoke about his non-functioning Stereo Realist), John heard from listener Howard M. Sandler, who it turns out is quite the expert on Stereo Photography! We thought a deep dive into Stereo would be in order, and John was very happy to have Howard as a guest for this Stereo excursion. Below is an example of Howard's stereo work.

Howard was also kind enough to provide a treasure trove of links on the topic (listed below), so dive in!

Howard's stereo photos (mostly film, but not exclusively. Almost all presented in parallel viewing format)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hsandler/albums/72157674884839827

 

 

One of many stereo groups on flickr (images in a variety of viewing formats. There are also groups for specific viewing formats)

https://www.flickr.com/groups/stereoimages/pool/

 

 

London Stereoscopic Co. They sell a good viewer for parallel images (the Owl viewer) and publish a gallery of good stereo pairs each month (Full disclosure: Howard has an image in the May 2020 gallery).

https://www.londonstereo.com/index.html

 

 

Everything about the care and maintenance of Stereo Realists.

http://www.drt3d.com/3DRealist/

 

 

Composition and the Stereo Window

https://ggstereo.org/3d-is-different/

 

 

Medium format stereo considerations

https://ggstereo.org/medium-format-stereo/

 

 

Brian May's documentary "A Brief History of 3D" (presented in parallel view)

https://vimeo.com/30371088

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Classic Camera Revival - Episode 80 - Pardon Me, Do you have a Smoke?

Bill, Alex, and Alex sit down and discuss the awesome but frustrating icon of a camera, the Rollei 35!

Classic Camera Revival - Episode 79 - The Plate

Alex and John sit down with Jason Lane to discuss Dry Plate Photography, his love of the format that drove him to produce modern dry plates and a modern holder to allow photographers to enjoy this 19th century format that helped popularise photography.

Classic Camera Revival - Episode 78 - Rest in Pieces

Sometimes a camera breaks and we can't get it fixed, but we don't want to get rid of it either, so they just sit on our shelves looking pretty or in pieces. The gang also talks about getting your camera repaired.

Classic Camera Revival - Episode 77 - Sgt. Eastman and the Lonely Camera Band

There are some terrible cameras out there, but sometimes a camera that has a huge following and produces some amazing images. And several of these cameras are owned or rather were owned by members of the team, but they just didn't fit our style. These cameras often sit on our shelves just not used anymore, they're part of the lonely camera band.