What a cool lens name. The Voigtlander 25mm F4 Flektogon!

A customer let us borrow his new found toy the 25mm Voigtlander Flektogon which is the second widest lens Voigtlander that was made in Germany. Here a few images we took of it on our old Exacta.

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Back to film with a Polaroid Land camera.

I have temporarily left the digital Super Highway, though I must admit once you are on it, it is very hard to find an exit. Well an old Polaroid Land camera has provided just that. It seems like I last shot Polaroids centuries ago! The view from our office window! As soon as I peeled [...]

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Recycle your old cameras at Mainlinephoto.

We are now part of the national camera recycling network so bring in ( or send them in)  those old cameras hanging around gathering dust. Why recycle them here is the good oil here.

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The Kodachrome RIP T shirt…

A must have for those who shot with Kodachrome. Available for a limited time from Dwaynes Lab in the USA

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Improve your Photography. Learn about yourself.

If you are going to pay to learn about something there is one key factor that will make the difference between just completing  a course or actually achieving a transformation. The quality of the teacher.  Lenard Metcalf is a teacher and trainer of the highest calibre and also a very accomplished photographer. Len’s runs Len’s [...]

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New Fuji wide angle medium format camera the GF670W. Will there be a Bessa III WIDE?

Well we are now getting the 2010 Photokina releases coming out. Though this one is a little unexpected I must admit. A wide angle 667 camera from Fuji.  It begs the question will we see a Voigtlander 667 wide shortly. Looks like we have a fixie here with a 55mm lens. This is very interesting [...]

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Bessa III Images of Sicily by Carla Drago.

Film director and photographer Carla Drago is currently working on a project in Sicily. She has sent us this postcard. Carla Writes: Thought you might like seeing some of the photos I took as part of my project in Sicily earlier in the year. It’s taken a while for me to process, scan, post process, [...]

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Looking for film camera instruction manuals? Look no further.

Owner of the website orphan cameras Mike Butkus has produced over many years a labour of love. Here are the missing manuals for those who buy an old film camera. Over 2500 manuals are listed as pdf files. From old plate cameras through to even the current Cosina made Bessa range are available for download. [...]

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Film cameras on the streets of Tokyo.

Photographer John Sypal is an expat living in Japan who has a very cool website called “Tokyo Camera Style” where he posts images of other photographers cameras he comes across in the street. Good clean fun! My what a big lens hood you have!

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David Jenkins produces his first Tintype image.

Mainline customer and Commercial photographer David Jenkins has just returned from a weekend course on the Tintype process run by Gold Street studios in Victoria. Below is his final image! Almost looks 3D. Learn more about this process here. Tintype flower by David Jenkins ( Nomad Photography 2010) So I think this is a good [...]

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Take a trip down memory lane with one of these!

Remember the Olympus Trip 35? This compact camera was made for 17 years! Targeted at the traveler it was a little winner for company. It could hold the title of the first point and shoot compact with it’s simple zone focus and 2 shutter speeds. It boasted a very High quality 40mm f2.8 lens and [...]

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New film compact coming soon The Fuji KLASSE W & S models!

Due to the recent sucess of the Bessa III camera Fujifilm has asked partners Cosina to take on worldwide distribution of their high end compact P&S film camera the Klasse.  These cameras will be coming soon,  no price as yet but we will keep you updated. Available in  28mm and 38mm 2.8 lens versions. 2010 [...]

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Kodachrome finally fades out. Last production run winds up its 74 year life.

Well it had to happen in this digital era but still sad that Kodak didn’t keep it going at least for us sentimentalists who grew up using the big K. I virtually shot kodachrome exclusively in my youthful travels and remember fond moments like been stuck the the darkest Amazon jungle with nothing but kodachrome [...]

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New Canon Rangefinder book… a must have.

Canon collector and writer Peter Kitchingman has published the first of three volumes on the Canon Rangefinder system. This first 215 page volume focuses solely on the M39 lenses made by Canon over the years 1933 to 1971. A customer has loaned me his copy and it is an outstanding piece of work! As a [...]

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Polaroid instant film makes a comeback on the POLAPREMIUM site!

As the oft and overused quote goes “the stories of my death are exaggerated” The quote certainly applies to Polaroid film which  is now being sold by Polarpremium both new and old stock is available. Actually it seems that very few people seem to know that we are still able to buy it. Well yep [...]

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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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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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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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