Old 1869 Voigtlander lens was the worlds first fast lens!

Friend and fellow blogger Uncle Gordy (aka Gordon Coale) just loves hunting down interesting old stuff, one day it’s old typewriters then the next old cameras or lenses. Must have something to do with living on an island! Though this time I think he has found himself some buried treasure! The early Petzvals were shot [...]

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New Linhof Digital Outdoor field camera! The TECHNO..

Well Leica are not the only German company pulling a rabbit out of their hat this year at the 2008 Photokina. Linhof have as well with the all new digital ready TECHNO a modernised large format field camera ready to take any digital back! The New Linhof TECHNO With its all new use of carbon [...]

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The Mainline Customer Web Photographic Gallery!

Finally I have got around to organising something I have been wanting to do for a while and that is start an online gallery of our customers photographs. We are using Flickr as the web base application for the Gallery and each photographer accepted into the gallery will get their own sets within the matching [...]

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World’s oldest Camera goes up for sale! “1839 Daguerreotype”

Well it is amazing what turns up in old sheds ( it just never seems to be mine). This 1839 French Daguerreotype camera goes up for auction on the 22nd of May with German Auction house Westlicht. No only has it been authenticated as the oldest camera in existence it has a pretty cool history [...]

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What a beauty. Homemade 45 Point and Shoot camera.

Mainline customer and photographer Rodrick Bond has put his hand to a litte bit of camera manufacturing. Apart from producing great photos he has produced the “Darth Handy” a 45PS camera that takes roll film backs. It is pretty cool, you can get the full story and photos here at Mister Bend . The Darth [...]

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Handy lens focal length comparison chart.

This nice chart is very handy when you wish to compare focal lengths across different formats. It has been put together by the highly esteemed folks at View Camera magazine. You can download a copy of it here.

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Introduction to large format photography.

Very good intro video by J.Brunner. Nice camera and tripod! Not recommended for allergy sufferers.

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New Retro rangefinder from Fotoman…. very cool

These guys seem unstoppable! Check this cool new accessory out it’s a Rangefinder unit based on the old Voigtlander one. Every 612 and 617 camera owner is going need one of these ( great for golf too). According to data just in it is extremely accurate ( I don’t know the rangefinder base yet) and [...]

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Gamers film camera scare fest…….Project Zero

Photography in a video game and a good one! Well.. I have always been a fan of the adventure game genre and this is one game that manages to scare the hell out of me…. it’s kind of like lying awake in bed and hearing the sound of that empty packet of crisps slowly unfurling [...]

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