Tilted Plane

Always a great read. May as well add some nuggets.

First, Talbot did register his process in the US, via E T & H Anthony, and no doubt that led to almost no calotypes being made here (I live in...

I have a Gitzo Reporter from the 1960s, I believe, and a 3 Legged Thing from 2019. Guess which is the venerable stalwart? Both are great (the 3 Legged is a Winston, which I love), but the level of...

Disagree totally, from 40 years in the field. But that's how you begin: might just be me.

Please give Elizabeth Fulhame her due. You're being wonderful with credit for some of the lost souls of pre-photography, but she should have shown up at the end of Part 1, in my humble view. One of...

Yes, expensive.

Always a sublime balance of speed and substance, smartly produced and well thought out. You can't ask for more. These two guys are the gold standard…or maybe silver standard on a retro film Friday....

"Well designed" means it looks and feels superb, it does its job with elegance. The Leica also did the job well (once), but that's a different story. Like an Eames chair is "well designed"—it...