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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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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Customer Profile Landsacpe photographer Archie Muntz

Good old Archie Muntz has been a Mainline customer for many years now.  His day job is to die for he is the Manager and overseer of the reclamation of  Curtis Island in the Great Barrier Reef National Park Queensland. What does that all mean? It means he is the guy responsible for seeing the [...]

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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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Still Moments… an exhibition of fine art landscape photographs by Warren Hinder.

Warren Hinder is a published and collected photographer who lives in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. He is also a Mainline Customer and film user. Starting on the 8th of August through to the 30th of August he has a gallery showing of his best works at the Nolan on Lovel gallery in Katoomba [...]

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Bessa III review by Ed Dale

Mainline Customer and recent Bessa III purchaser is so delighted with his camera that he has sent through this personal hands on review. Ed writes: Is this camera worth the expense?. Does it take a good photo? Does it work? Does it make sense? The Short Review – This camera is superb. But I suspect [...]

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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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The Travelling Bessa III is on it’s way!

Our Travelling Bessa III has arrived and is now with it’s first participant. A happy Phil Ramsden picks up the camera!  While Rufus continues snoring… Our first delivery has sold out!  in fact we did not even get the quantity we ordered. Cosina are short of production  time and only produced 100 in this run.  [...]

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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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Ricky Maynard Exhibition. Portrait of a Distant Land.

Tasmanian Aboriginal documentary photographer Ricky Maynard (and Mainline Customer) has been in the news of late with his travelling exhibition “Portrait of a Distant land” arriving in Sydney. Ricky’s photography tells his people’s story from their perspective… not the usual white academics. Ricky is a highly accomplished photographer, who still uses and believes in large [...]

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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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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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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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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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