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This incredible YouTube channel tells the history of and reviews old film cameras

April 13, 2016Gannon Burgett

Like many photographers, I’m a connoisseur of old, analogue cameras. Sure, many of them don’t work and others can’t be shot due to the film stock no longer being produced, but there are a dozen or so that I continually cycle through when I go on a random film spree. Something I haven’t yet done […]

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This short film was made entirely by animating old photos from the 20th century

April 7, 2016Gannon Burgett

By combining photographs from the past with technology from today, Moscow-based photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov has created an incredible animation short titled The Old New World. For the four-minute film, Zakharov took photos of New York, Bo…

Why does everyone look so stoic in old photographs?

March 15, 2016Gannon Burgett

When looking back through old photos, have you ever wondered why subjects rarely smiled, even if the portrait was of an exciting event like a wedding? If so, a new video from Vox will help address your questions. In the three and a half minute, Vox explains four reasons subjects decided to forgo the ‘cheese’ and […]

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This 136-year-old large format lens keeps up with modern day DSLR glass

January 11, 2016Gannon Burgett

Photographer Stern Mathieu has an ongoing series titled ‘Weird Lens Challenge,’ wherein he takes old, strange and unusual lenses for a test drive to see how they perform. In his latest episode, he reviews a 136 year old large format camera lens—one of the first to ever have an internal aperture mechanism. According to Stern, […]

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