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Whenever I travel, if I find there is a camera store in the vicinity of where I am staying, I try to stop by and check it out.  Tucson, Arizona has such a store — Monument Camera, and when I was in Tucson for over a week last month, I finally had the opportunity to stop in.  I was previously in Tucson in January, 2024, and was unable to visit Monument Camera when it wa...

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Bill Schwab, Photostock 2008Bill Schwab 1959-2025 To say that someone left us too early is an understatement.  Bill Schwab, a Michigan-based photographer, died in Scotland yesterday from cardiac arrest while leading one of his photo workshops in Scotland.  Kerik Kouklis, Bill’s closest friend, gave the awful news via his Instagram account. It was heartbreaking new...

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 The OG Signet - Signet 35Kodak's line of Signet-branded cameras began in 1951 with the introduction of the Signet 35, which replaced the ugly as hell Kodak 35 camera.  The Signet 35 was a stylish camera, with a nice 44mm f/3.5 Ektanar lens ins a Synchro 300 shutter. Compared to the Argus C3, the Signet 35 was far superior in aesthetics, size, and ease of use.  Th...

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 Sept. 26, 2025So says this T-shirt that I received in 2005, from my long-time Flickr friend, Therese.   The t-shirt was sold by Looking Glass Photo in Berkeley, CA, and I wore it there when I visited Berkeley in 2016.  By that time, it was definitely vintage, and now even more so.  The sentiment expressed on the shirt was a rallying cry from long-time f...

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I have this lens in M42 mount, and it's great - and heavy!You probably associate the Vivitar name with lenses from the 1970s to 1990s.    It’s a well-known brand in the photographic industry, or at least it was, as it went bankrupt in 2008.    There’s a lot of information about the Vivitar brand, and many people are familiar with the Vivitar flash units that were considered to b...

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