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Here is a short video showing some very rare Edward J. Steichen Autochromes of Charlotte Spaulding that were turned over to the George Eastman House. These are very cool.

Since I’m on the topic of George Eastman House, they also have some really good resources available.

One I like is the Collections Online. Here you can see photographs by such people as Mathew Brady and Alfred Stieglitz.

Another is their podcast. The video above was one of them.

There’s a lot of other information on the eastmanhouse.org web site. Spend some time there.

Cool gift shop too. Now let’s see, do I get the Leica Christmas ornament or the Speed Graphic neck tie? Or both?

Now, I need a trip to New York so I can go check out their theater. For now, I’ll settle for the web site.

OK, so this site doesn’t have a slick layout, but I really like the spirit of adventure of testing old lenses on large format cameras.

Jim Galli talks about lenses that he buys and sometimes restores. These might be large format lenses, portrait lenses, projection lenses, seemingly anything he can mount on a camera.

Some of his articles are comparison shots made with different lenses, some are just explorations of a single lens.

If this site can’t make you want to go try out new possibilities in old lenses, then I don’t know what will. It’s good stuff.

He has definitely given me the bug to seek out and try old glass. It looks fun.

Vintage Lenses on eBay

Do you look at the prices of digital cameras and cringe? I know I do. As much as I enjoy putting film through, I mean, saving pictures to memory cards, all these toys cost money and someone has to pay for that. Right?

Well, here’s an insightful article by Ken Rockwell about affording that gear and anything else in life. There are several gems in here that are so true.

How to Afford a New Digital Camera and Anything Else for that Matter

So if you have that urge for a new Canon EOS 5D Mark II or a Nikon D700, this article might get you thinking.