I will rename this regular post to “From My Tabs”, because it’s mostly things that I have read you might be interested in.`
Film
Scanning Film at Home Made Simple: Fstoppers Reviews the Valoi Easy35 — This is a mechanical device (with a LED) to digitise 35mm film with a digital camera. It’s quite expensive, but it seems to be one of the best. See also Digitising film
Noritsu LS-1100 – The Move to Home Scanning / Early experiences with a 35mm Film Lab Scanner — Getting a Noritsu to work is no picnic.
How I Fell in Love with Film — From 2020, someone discover film photography after being pushed (by the vendor) to get a camera body when purchasing a vintage Russian lens.
How I Organize My Film Negatives, Scans and Darkroom Prints — Interesting. I do some of the same. Also I love the typewriter stuff.`
The Newspaper Picture Editor Was Photography’s Most Powerful Job, and It Is Disappearing From American Newsrooms — What is a picture editor, their role in news publishing, and a chronology on how they got culled out of many newsrooms after staff photographers were.
PPP Cameras unveils new website aiming to list every film camera ever made — So many different cameras have been made.
Fujichrome MS 100/1000 – Irresponsible Pushing — Once upon a time this was the fastest slide film, designed to be pushed to EI 1000. At the time when the fastest slide film was 400. But stock that expired in 2002…
Macro
Why this macro photographer shoots carnivorous plants with a 50-year-old Pentax lens — Some inspiration about macro.
I Have a Confession to Make About My Landscape Photography — a point of view on the authors practice of Landscape Photography.
DIY
Fujihack — Reverse-engineering and improving Fujifilm cameras. This is for a limited set of models of Fujifilm. Use at you own risks.
Changing LTM cameras to M Mount and learning camera repair (Part 1) — Converting a Zorki rangefinder from LTM to M-mount. Not an easy modification, nor inexpensive.
Fujifilm
Why Fujifilm Survived the Digital Apocalypse That Killed Kodak — Kodak came back, but definitely not as big as it was.
Fujifilm’s X-Trans Sensor: The Rebel Design That Solved One Problem and Created Others — Explains Fujifilm X-Trans.
History
Leica Was Effectively Bankrupt in 2005, and the Investor Who Bought It Had Never Run a Camera Company — A history about Leica financial difficulties that could have led to its disappearance.
Nearly Every JPEG on Earth Runs on Math a Reviewer Called Too Simple to Fund in 1972 — JPEG is the underpinning of digital cameras since almost the beginning. While it is being replaced by newer codecs, it is not going away.