Director Jason Bognacki had a Contessa-Nettel Piccolette German folding camera from 1919 sitting around on his shelf for ages, and decided one day to bring it back to life by attaching it to his Canon 5D Mark II.
This photo shows what 5MB of hard drive storage looked like in 1956. The IBM 305 RAMAC hard disk …
Did you know that in vintage tintype photographs of infants mothers were often present in the photo but hidden by a veil? Subjects needed to remain still due to the longer exposure times required back then, so mothers were often asked to hold their children tightly while the portraits were being exposed. It was common practice back then, but the resulting photos are pretty eerie when you look at them now.
The George Eastman House in Rochester, NY is the world’s oldest museum dedicated …
Kaufmann’s Posographe is an intricate pocket-sized mechanical calculator invented back in the 1920s. Measuring 13x8cm and filled with tiny scribblings, the device allowed photographers to approximate the exposure values they needed by simply sliding around six small pointers.
Maurice Ribble of Tech Photo Blog recently found the ingredients list for flash …
If you’ve never shot with a large format camera before, you might find this video illuminating. In it, photographer …
Street artists Jana & JS visit cities across Europe and paint portraits of themselves (and sometimes others) shooting with various film cameras. Each piece first starts out as a photograph, which is then turned into a stencil that's used to put up the painting.
If printing your film photos with the usual chemicals isn't old school enough for your taste, you should try your hand at making a salt print.
You don't need an instant film camera to shoot instant film photos: Flickr user Angex Lin shot the above photograph using an old-school Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera loaded with Fujifilm Instax Mini instant film.
Did you know that some of Kodak’s early DSLR cameras had built-in games? Before Canon and Nikon started making …
You’ve probably seen the special keyboard covers for Mac keyboards that show you the Photoshop shortcut each key is …
Here’s a photograph of paparazzi taken back in 1932. Looks like some things …