A few more SX-70 instant pictures from the project.
From Our Windows, Part 4
From Our Windows: A Video Introduction
I started this series of posts with a written introduction to From Our Windows. However, I thought I would put together a "home-style" video with yours truly explaining the genesis of the project as well as a quick look-through of André Kertész's 1981 book, From My Window. The video is embedded in this post for... Continue Reading →
From Our Windows, Part 3
A few more SX-70 photographs. Please be sure to click "Continue reading..." below to see all the images.
From Our Windows, Part 2
The last time I picked up a Polaroid camera was about 1979. It was a Polaroid OneStep loaded with SX-70 film, both original Polaroid Corporation products. So much has changed since then. Polaroid filed for bankruptcy in 2001, changed ownership twice and finally shut down its film processing plants in 2008. The Impossible Project salvaged... Continue Reading →
Camera Tales: The Nikon FM & FE
A small format camera is the photographer's sketchbook, the place where ideas can be quickly explored before paint is applied to that big, forever canvas of the final print. Over two decades, my coterie of Nikon cameras and lenses ably served as my sketchbooks. It started in 1978 with the purchase of a Nikon FE... Continue Reading →
Camera Tales: The Horizont
Push the shutter release button and something unusual happens. No click, just a brief mechanical whir as the narrow slit in a silver drum rotates counterclockwise across the front of the camera. This is the Horizont, a Russian-built swing lens panoramic camera, the first of several devices I would own and use to take long... Continue Reading →
Camera Tales: The Konica Autoreflex T (second exposure)
Konica introduced the Autoreflex T in 1968, the company’s first fully automatic 35mm single lens reflex (SLR) camera with through-the-lens (TTL) metering. The camera is built like a tank and, when the shutter-release button is pushed, it sounds like one. Its heft might suggest it was carved out of a solid block of steel. The camera came with... Continue Reading →
Camera Tales: The Kodak Brownie Fiesta
Here begins the story of my life in photography told from the perspective of the cameras I have owned over the past fifty years. The tale begins with a Kodak Brownie Fiesta, a gift from my aunt and uncle, likely given in the mid-1960s. The Fiesta was manufactured from 1962 to 1966. Like the myriad... Continue Reading →