Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Tab Clearing...

  • You Don't Know What You Don't Know (The Death of Expertise)

  • Make Handguns Affordable Again

  • Jim Grey republishes an older essay on why he collects cameras. It's interesting that the post was originally written back in 2012, which was about the time I was first toying with the idea of getting back into film photography. That happened to coincide with what was pretty much the bottom of the film camera market. You could pick up some very exceptional film gear for what were, in retrospect, bargain basement prices. The resurgence of film photography as a hobby among Millennials and Zoomers has seen prices on old film gear rebound sharply. You used to could get, say, all the Canon AE-1s or Pentax K1000s you wanted for twenty bucks a pop and now nice ones are going for well over a C-note.

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