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26 November 2024

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The “Boy’s book of Photography” review.

I've written many posts about vintage cameras on this site, but this is something a little bit different - it's a review of a book - the Boy's book of Photography.

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Are you up for a Challenge?

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Medium format, glass mounted slides around Europe

This week I found my best find yet for Found-Film - a set of medium format, colour slides in very good condition, which were taken sometime between 1958 and 1962.

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Some fantastic Swiss photos in a tatty case

This week I bought a fantastic set of Kodachrome slides taken in Switzerland in the early 1960s which came in one of the worst condition boxes I've ever seen.

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A history of dancing colour slide collection

Some photos featuring a group of people demonstrating different forms of dancing

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Pictures of Eilean Donan Castle from 2002

The Eilean Donan Castle is set in a beautiful part of Scotland and as well as being a very photogenic subject, has also been used as the location of many films throughout the last 60 years. I

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Views of Dunbar harbour from my slide set of Scotland

Show some great views of Dunbar harbour taken on Colour Slide film in 1967.

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The look of Ilford slide film after 50 years

In this, the first of a series of posts, I'm attempting to show the look of a film emulsion which is now unfortunately lost to the world - I'm going to show the look of Ilford slide film.

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How to go about Cleaning old 35mm slides

This is a short post which shows how I go about cleaning old 35 mm slides.

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Some Pictures of Ayres rock in Australia

Some photos taken at Ayres Rock in Australia in May 1992 are the feature of this post.

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Snapshots in time: Scotland on Kodak film from 1967

This week's big find on the Found Film site is a box of colour slides taken in 1967 which show many views of Scotland.

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Interesting Photos from RAF Seletar in Singapore from the mid 1960s

This post is about a set of colour slides I bought which contained a slice of history in the form of some photos of RAF Seletar in Singapore.

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Using IR scans to remove marks from colour slides with Silverfast.

This is just a short post which covers using the Infra Red scanning capabilities of the Epson flat bed scanners to identify and remove marks and dirt from colour slides during scanning.

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An idea for an 8mm telecine machine

An idea I had to convert an old 8mm film editor into a telecine machine.

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How are films scanned for Found-Film?

I thought I would write a brief post explaining how I get the slides and negatives onto the Found-Film site.

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Welcome to the Found Film (or lost pictures) archive

I want to say a big welcome to anyone who has discovered the Found Film site - a home for lost pictures, and say a few words about the reason it has been created.

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A box of colour slides for a fiver?

A couple of weeks ago I found an ad on eBay for an old 35mm slide box complete with about 100 colour slides and starting at only £0.99.

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Collecting colour slides

I've long had a fascination for old pictures which I find in vintage cameras and I've added several posts on this site featuring pictures I've found on cameras I've acquired from eBay.

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Making a Topcor UV to Nex mount adapter

The post shows how I constructed a mount adapter for Topcon UV lenses for my Sony NEX 6 mirrorless camera.

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Uncoupled exposure meter tests on vintage cameras

This is another article in my series about checking the health of vintage cameras in which I'm going to deal with testing an uncoupled exposure meter.

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