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It’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m in Saint John, New Brunswick for a National Basketball League of Canada game between the Saint John Mill Rats and the Halifax Rainmen.  It was a pretty decent game – both teams are headed for the playoffs, so the starters rested and the bench players got some minutes. Prior to…

Well, I guess I should have expected this to happen… I just wish it didn’t happen so soon. Kodak has announced that as of March 1, 2012, they will no longer manufacture their slide film Ektachrome.  Their last three slide film products – Kodak Professional Ektachrome E100G film, Kodak Professional Ektachrome E100VS film, and Kodak…

It’s time to take your camera, drive out to Menands, and capture the stunning beauty and reverence of one of the Capital District’s oldest burial grounds. And in doing so, you might also win a prize. For the fifth consecutive year, the people who operate St. Agnes Cemetery are asking you to bring your camera…

And as I unzip my camera bag… I pull out the newest lens in my arsenal. Say hi to the Vivitar 19mm f/3.8 wideangle lens.  At 19mm of focal length, it’s my most-defined wide-angle camera in my bag.  I just got it over the weekend, and paid for it with my share of the winnings…

Last year, I acquired a Kodak Brownie Bull’s-Eye 620 camera at a yard sale.  I took some pictures with it – it’s a decent shooter, and I like the idea of using 120 film in a 620 “wide” 6×9 format – but, as much as I loved what the camera could do, the pictures it…

For the past year, I’ve found some great photo life in my old Agfa Chief 616 box camera.  It’s allowed me to both experiment with vintage film, but also to evolve my “splitfilm” trick of using two rolls of film in one camera.  In fact, it was this bad beast that produced one of my…