glass

Today we visited Kari Alakoski's studio and my younger daughter, quite talented artist herself blowed together with Kari a unique vase. Kari Alakoski has worked in Iittala glass factory since young boy, and later taught glass making. Kari has been making iconic Alvar Aalto vases, as well as...

TL;DR: high-end matt paper test prints, mounted without any glass or acrylic cover, were placed in my living room for over a year. They turned out more robust than anticipated in terms of dealing with UV light and constant fluctuations in temperature and humidity. I will now proceed to have my...

My son and I swapped lenses for today. I got his 50MM Summicron Rigid (circa 1957). He got my Voigltlander 35mm Classic Nokton MC. Here are a couple of shots with the M10-R and the 50. The shot of the silo is with the 24 Elmarit (Circa 1996). So the 24 is not as old as the Summicron.... It...

Good Afternoon, One of my sons picked up these glass plate negatives for me as part of an estate auction last year. I did some research and the location points (most likely) to the whaling port of New Bedford, Massachusetts. I am going to take these to the N.B. Whaling Museum to get a true...

I have 3 lens that aren't worth selling because they were dirt cheap. Instead of taking a loss, how can I convert them to Nikon? The body in question is a Nikon D7100 I will need some sort of adapter of course. Is anyone familiar with what I would need. Lenses, Tamron 70-300mm 4-5.6 ff...

Later this year I hope to buy a Leica M digital. As a result, I keep an eye on auctions just to have a good idea of what is out there and what the prices are looking like. I saw an auction on ebay for a M Monochrome for much lower than usual. This was due to these scratches on the glass...

Puhar was not the first to create a working photograph on glass process but is credited for inventing a process that made it reproducible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography In 1839, John Herschel made the first glass negative, but his process was difficult to reproduce...

Took this while I was at a clients house, looking out through her glass door.