Crafting Pixels

John Courtis in his book “Bluff you way in Photography” (1993) suggested that the worst camera to come out of East Germany was the Pentina.

Staeble was a German company founded in Munich on May 5, 1908 as Optisches Werk Dr.

Websites come and go.

Large format plate cameras offered a simple ground-glass screen, which offered many advantages, when speed of focusing and viewing aren’t really essential (and a tripod was being used).

“It’s sort of an obvious point but, if you think about it, the photographs that are used on postcards are all excellent images.

Well mostly it has to do with with aesthetics and simplicity, but also authenticity, and nostalgia.

Yes, it’s 2026 and we are still discussing megapixels.

When super-speed movie films started to appear in the 1950s, the industry began to yearn for super-speed lenses to match the advanced film speeds.

“A photographer’s duty is to improve and increase his techniques!

When you look at modern lens literature there is often one thing that is often hyped up – the use of aspherical lenses.