Tony Peri is the Indiana Jones of photography.

Tony Peri is a guy with a mission in life. He is a local artist/photographer who specialises in historic and alternative printing processes. He is helping bring about a modern day resurrection of old skool printing technique’s from a century ago. When you first meet Tony you would never suspect that this unassuming fellow with [...]

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The Traveling Bessa III Australia project. Get to use one for 14 days!

Here at Mainlinephoto we know that many of our customers would love to own a Bessa III, but just cannot afford one. The price just blew out due to circumstances beyond our control. So in order to give everyone a fair chance to at least use one and have some fun. We have instigated the [...]

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Blanco Negro specialist black and white printing and processing.

The folks at Blanco Negro lab in Sydney are one of the few labs left practicing the art of black and white darkroom work. None of this lightroom stuff they are the real Mc Coy getting down with trays full of chemicals, negatives and enlargers in the dark! Chris Reid is the owner and operator [...]

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How to tell the difference between real and fake B+W filters!

B+W has taken the following steps to counter the flood of Replica or Fake filters on the market place. I am now posting a modified version of the original guide. New harder to copy ( and more expensive) packaging. From January 2011 all B+W filters are packaged in the following boxes. So if you are [...]

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New Voigtlander 15mm 4.5 M mount lens. First take. Very nice!

Cosina certainly are not the type of company to sit back and watch the world pass them by. Every new product they bring out is a winner and here is another one. We have just received our first delivery of the new 15mm M mount lens. Which while the same optically ( razor sharp and [...]

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Fotoman Cameras ceases production.

The flagship of the range the 617. Our best seller. Sad news but true. Paul Droluk and partners have decided to shut down production of all Fotoman products effective immediately. A press release issued to all dealers explains that financially it is no longer viable to manufacture small volumes of Fotoman cameras in China. The [...]

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Turn any room into a Camera Obscura.

I noticed that my blog was getting a lot of searches for building a Camera Obscura. Well I did a troll of the net and thought that this video is a good start. I will add more posts on Camera Obscuras over time. All you need is a room with a view, a sheet or [...]

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Photography,Travel and Swiss Cheese. That sounds good!

I guess cheese for our family is like choc chip cookies for others. Growing up there was always the ever present cheese in the fridge and lots of it. I think it has something to do with Dad being dutch. Recently a friend house sat at Mum and Dads and said he couldn’t believe how [...]

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Cafe Ayllu a classic coffee shop in Cusco

The cafe Ayllu has been serving the hungry of Cusco for 38 years now. I have been going there for over 20 of them and it hasn’t changed. It still is the best cafe in Cusco. It’s location smack bang on the plaza with it’s huge windows allow for a fine view where you can [...]

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How to clean a lens or filter. The safe and stress free way!

These days there is just too much information out there on the net… some of it good and some bad. I did a search before writing this post on lens cleaning and came up with all kinds of stuff. So I contacted our friends at Schneider optics for their take and Hans our Zeiss trained [...]

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Dude where have all the labs gone?

Chatting with a customer the other day we realised there were only two labs left in Sydney (a city of 4 million) doing E6 processing! This is a little scary when you can see the demand is there, folks are still buying and using film. They want to shoot with film. So this post is [...]

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Do I need a slim filter for my wide angle DSLR lens?

We get asked this question everyday. Generally if your lens is 20mm or wider on a full size chip DSLR then yes a slim filter will be needed to avoid vignetting. On 1.25-1.3 crop factor cameras a slim filter is usually not needed until we get to around the 10-12mm mark. But this can vary [...]

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Win stuff… sign up for our email special offers!

Hi, thanks for dropping by! Before you read on, why not take a moment to enter our monthly competition where you can win a great prize… Every month we give away a B+W Lens cleaning kit ( Opticlean & cloth)! All you have to do is click on the link below and sign up for [...]

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How to use your PS3 for viewing photos and creating slide shows

I was always jealous of my friend Mark as being a muso he has a mac and it has a pretty cool photo show program with the Ken Burns effect ( zooms randomly on your images making it look more like a video). Ha now I have it too! On my PS3… If you have [...]

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Leica R system gone! R10 all just a cruel trick. 1964-2009 R.I.P

The rumours have been around for a while now, but yep… it’s 100% official as you can see by the Leica press release. Well most of us knew anyway, in the back of our minds that there never was going to be a digital solution for the Leica R system. We just have to face [...]

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A fine ferret fun day was had by all.

My Fuzzy enjoyed what was probably her last ferret fun day this weekend. Even though she is very ill we took her as we knew it would be great enrichment for her. She had a great time not playing but being carted around in our arms and getting pats and meeting lots of friends. And [...]

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Terror in the hostal Frankenstein!

I have been walking past the entrance to the Hostal Frankenstein for around 15 years now. I always wondered who stayed there? I mean with a name like that? Oh yeah it is located in a back street in Cusco Peru. Anyway when we were looking for a place to change hotels to for Mum [...]

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Using filters on your Canon G7,G9 or G10

I wanted to travel to Peru this time with a small digi cam rather than worry about all my film and it’s associated gear getting zapped in countless xray machines or getting stolen as we travel and stay in some pretty dodgy places. I must admit it certainly was a lot less stressful. Ok now… [...]

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Making a pinhole camera for world pinhole day!

When I heard about World pinhole day I thought now that’s one type of photography that I have always wanted to try! Now I have the excuse for turning something weird into a camera. What to use that is the question? Tape a box to a large bucket and shoot 8×10 I think that is [...]

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My fuzzy is leaving us. When your pets are going…

Our Fuzzy was our first ferret and showed us that some animals can become almost human. She is as our friend Tom says the ferret in a bubble! Dirt what is that! She sleeps in the bed with us and has become part of our home. Now she has cancer and is slowy slipping away… [...]

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