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Legends of Photography

This section contains historic items in the process of photography -- early cameras and equipment, early photo processes, and people who influenced photography.
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Legends of photography -- the Contax II 35mm camera

Legends -- Leica IIIg, a pinnacle of design elegance

Legends: The Kodak Bantam Special -- an Art Deco masterpiece

Legends -- Remembering the Weston light meter

Workshops on alternative photographic processes

Ode to a legend -- the Leica M4

Legends of Photography -- The Minox Riga camera

Alpa 9d Reflex camera

Kern Macro Switar 50mm lens on a Leica M and Fuji X


Swiss elegance - the Alpa Reflex 9d camera

Shooting with the Leica 8.5cm f/1.5 Summarex lens

Robert Capa and his D-Day Contax camera

Imitating the Autochrome process in Photoshop

Argus C3 camera - "The Brick"

An evening with the Wet Collodion Process

The Tessina 35 sub-miniature camera

Henry Fox Talbot - Inventor of the positive-negative photography process

Nikon FTn camera - the first Nikon SLR


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