Category Archives: retrostuff

Living on the edge

1896-1907: Victorian Cliff House “Cliff House has had five major incarnations since its beginnings in 1858. In 1896, Adolph Sutro built a new Cliff House, a seven story Victorian Chateau, called by some “the Gingerbread Palace”, below his estate on the bluffs of Sutro Heights. Great throngs of San Franciscans arrived on steam trains, bicycles, […]

Vintage camera’s zijn nog steeds awesome

Even geen foto’s maken met een hypermoderne digitale camera of je iPhone. We houden ook van nostalgie en wat is nou mooier dan een camera die deze vintage look en feel heeft? Wij hebben de acht beste voor je opgesomd voor als je even terug in de tijd wil toen je ouders nog kiekjes van […]

Foto’s uit het meest gesloten land ter wereld: Noord-Korea

Deze foto’s zijn genomen door de Japanse fotograaf Hiroji Kubota tussen 1979 en 1987. Ondanks dat de foto’s al wat jaartjes oud zijn, denken wij dat ze een prima beeld geven van het huidige Noord-Korea, waar veranderingen heel niet of heel langzaam gaan.— met dank aan froot.nl

Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris

Although some of these images might look like a modern day photography and some of them like painted pictures, actually it is real colored photographies, taken at the beginning of the 20th century Paris (France). It is extremely astonishing to look at the world now long gone, the world which you are used to see […]

French WWI images found still in camera

Here’s something you don’t see every day, so I think it deserves a post. The other day I was alerted by my friend Rob McElroy about the existence of an antique store that recently purchased a large photography estate.  Among other things Rob collects antique books on photography and asked me to investigate if I […]

How to Use a Holga as a Handheld Wet Plate Camera

Michael Zhang · Dec 18, 2012 Wet plate photographer Ian Ruhter has  received a good deal of attention over the past year for using  a custom camera van to create giant  collodion process metal photos. When he’s not turning large sheets of metal  into photographs, he’s sometimes working on the opposite side of the  spectrum. […]

Nice vintage project of Anna Green

Paris, city of DSLR filming and lights Posted on December 11, 2012 2 Finally we made it over to Paris for a long weekend of lights, Christmas inspired shopping and exploring. But most of all, to shoot a small movie explaining what this ‘French Vintage photography-thing’ is all about. The first days where spent looking for […]