Classic Camera Revival

Classic Camera Revival episodes:

• 06.11.2024

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 177 - The Leitz Waltz

  There's a whole lot of nerding out happening in this episode; join Bill and special guest Dan Tamarkin of Tamarkin Camera. Dan is the second-generation owner of Tamarkin Camera. America's premiere Leica Specialist. Started by his father with a roll-top...

  
• 05.28.2024

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 176 - Box Camera Madness II

  The topic of box cameras hasn't been discussed in a great deal since our first season, so Alex is back with a solo episode about his box camera collection, both his historic cameras and a few modern cameras that may...

  
• 05.14.2024

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 175 - Of Distant Memories

  Photography is driven by nostalgia. Photos can take you back to places where you have been; you can see people as they were or even stare into the faces of those who have passed once again. But what about places,...

  
• 04.25.2024

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 174 -Still Zooming Along

  That's right, we're doing it again with another episode about zoom lenses. While many of us are prime lens sort of people, a zoom lens can offer up a lot of versatility when we either don't want to or cannot,...

  
• 04.09.2024

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 173 - Night of the Living Film

  From Plus-X to Panatomic-X and Fujifilm colour stocks, join Alex, Bill and James as they discuss their favourite discontinued film stocks and what they try and do to recreate the magic. While far from perfect, there is a lot you...

  
• 03.26.2024

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 172 - Travelling Light II

  While we're still far from summer vacation, many people are already starting to figure out where they're going on holidays this year. As photographers, especially film photographers, it can be challenging to choose what camera(s) to bring and how to...

  
• 03.12.2024

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 171 - In The Loupe: Tawnya Mahoney

  Family albums, photo projects, books and double exposures. Jess, Chrissie, and Alex all sit down with the talented local Toronto photographer Tawnya Mahoney for our ongoing interview series. If you haven't had the chance to check out Tawnya's feed, you're...

  
• 02.27.2024

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 170 - Do You Want to Buy A Nikon

  When it comes to Nikon, tons of cameras and lenses are available, and you might feel a bit frozen when making that choice and where to jump in. Well, we aren't going to hide that we're a bunch of Nikon...

  
• 02.13.2024

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 169 - Baby It's Cold Outside II

  Even though this year's winter has not exactly been the best so far, with the lack of snow and almost a continuation of the weather we expect through  November, the CCR gang isn't letting that stop them from getting out...

  
• 01.30.2024

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 168 - Date Your Cameras, Marry Your Lenses Pt. II

  As part of revisiting some of our classic episode topics, this episode traces itself back to Season 2, Episode 13. The idea is that it is more important to invest in a lens system for your interchangeable lens systems; camera...

  
• 01.16.2024

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 167 - Would you Like to Play a Game?

  We're kicking off season ten with a little game, which is much harder than it sounds! Join Alex as he sits down with Daren from Learn Film Photography, Dmitri from Analog Cafe, and Yvonne Hanson, a fashion photographer and YouTuber...

  
• 12.22.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 166 - Resolved:2023

  Well, we made it to the end of another year, and the whole team is back around the table for one final episode, including a special guest, John Meadows. If you remember, at the start of the year, we all...

  
• 12.08.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 165 - Frugal Film Project Roundtable

  The Frugal Film Project is a collective photography challenge to help reign in the cost of photography. Starting in 2018, it encourages using budget cameras, lenses, and film over a year. The framework in which those participating work includes a...

  
• 11.24.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 164 - In the Loupe: Neil Guo

  It's always good to have a bit of competition in the market, and in Toronto, we have a lot of film labs that are processing a wide variety of film stocks. But there is a new lab opening in a...

  
• 11.10.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 163 - The Other Nikons

  Throughout its history, Nikon cameras have been primarily aimed at the professional market, from their stunning rangefinders in the S-Range to the original Nikon F and beyond. However, the mid-century and post-war economic boom brought a new group of photographers,...

  
• 10.27.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 162 - In the Loupe: Suzanne Pedersen

  It's been a while since we've interviewed a fellow film photographer, and today, joining Bill and Alex, is Suzanne Pedersen, a Colorado-based photographer who loves film! And you may have heard her on the Gen-X Photography Podcast! In the episode,...

  
• 10.13.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 161 - Unlucky

  In my experience, there's no such thing as luck - Obi Wan Kenobi From an RB67 purchased behind a Tim Horton's Dumpster, a sketchy FM, endless Polaroid Cameras, and an over-engineered German Camera, the team at CCR have had some bad...

  
• 09.29.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 160 - The Little F’s Pt. 2

  Everyone knows and loves the various cameras: FM, FE, FM2, FM2n, and FE2. But there are a series of cameras that are part of the minor F's that make some significant technological splashes and some belly flops that are generally...

  
• 09.15.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 159 - The Little F’s Pt. 1

  The world of SLRs changed with the release of the OM-System from Olympus. It proved you could have a professional, high-end SLR in a small package. Nikon, at the time, was producing high-end but large cameras. While the F and...

  
• 08.25.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 158 - Any Given Situation

  The whole team is on board for this one! Together we have enough kit to open up a small camera shop or a museum at least, but one of the hardest things many photographers face is when faced with all...

  
• 08.11.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 157 - The Last of the F’s

  While we have given cameras like the F, F2, and F3 their own separate episodes, the final three "Big F's" in Nikon's lineup were more evolutions of each other and were a radical departure from the previous manual cameras of...

  
• 07.28.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 156 - Live from the TFS

  This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Toronto Film Shooters Meetup. Our co-founder Alex started the initiative and noticed a post on the old APUG Toronto subforum wanting more film photography-centred meetups in the GTA. Having co-hosted an APUG/FPP...

  
• 07.14.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 155 - In the Loupe: Kelsey Smith

  In today's episode, we are happy to welcome Kelsey Smith to the podcast. If you haven't been paying attention to Social Media, Kelsey is a relative newcomer to the Internet and is busy outputting a tonne of online and physical...

  
• 06.30.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 154 - In the Loupe: I Dream of Cameras

  Joining Bill, James, and Alex is the dynamic duo, Jeff and Gabe, the folks behind the I Dream of Cameras podcast. Together they talk about all things gear, from the X-Pan to the rare Ilford Witness. Other head-turning cameras, even...

  
• 06.16.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 153 - Don’t Drink the Rodinal - Part 4

  It has been a while since we last visited the topic of film developers. So in today's episode Alex sits down to talk about some of the more exoctic developers that have poured their way through his chemistry kit recently....

  
• 05.26.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 152 - Accessorise This!

  When it comes to photography, there's always something extra you can get, and often these accessories are also the key to getting you things from here to there, getting the shot how you visualise it, nailing that exposure, keeping camera...

  
• 05.12.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 151 - In the Loupe: Sarah Stellino

  Today Jess and Chris sit down with renowned mid-west large format photographer Sarah Stellino. Topics include portraiture, farm work, parenthood, and being queer within the wider photography community. And, of course, a deep dive into working with large format cameras...

  
• 04.28.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 150 - In the Loupe: Molly Kate

  Bill and Alex sit down with Molly Kate, better known online as Eclectachrome! We discuss science fiction, accounting, professional photography, film, and cameras. Also, discussing travel, pizza, the Frugal Film Project, and more. It was a lot of fun to...

  
• 04.14.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 149 - Photographic Journeys

  Everyone's photographic journey is different, but they all move around in strange and unique ways. Sometimes a new medium makes a new path clear, or you could be looping backing to rediscover an old favourite technique, medium, style or piece...

  
• 03.24.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 148 - What Were They Thinking?!?

  It's been a long time since we've had a show where we shouted into the void, so we're shouting again and going on about some of the stranger decisions of the photographic industry has taken throughout their histories. We will...

  
• 03.10.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 147 - An Update from the Lab

  Matt from ReveniLabs joins Alex for an update on the latest from ReveniLabs! And things have been busy since the release of the brilliant spot meter. This time Matt is pushing a new incident and reflective meter that is unique...

  
• 02.24.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 146 - In the Loupe: James Lane

  In this episode, Alex sits down with James Lane, the high-priest of 510-Pyro. They discuss the starting of Zone Imaging and where 510-Pyro comes from. Dealing with Internet trolling and what's next for Zone Imaging in taking film chemistry into...

  
• 02.10.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 145 - In the Loupe: Amy Jasek

  Today Bill Smith sits down with Amy Jasek, better known as Texas Girl Photography across the wide Internet World and is a regular contributor to the Film Shooter Collective. Amy and Bill talk about her inspiration from her father in...

  
• 01.27.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 144 - Gas-X

  As a podcast that promotes ourselves as helping to feed photographers GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrom), it can be a breath of fresh air to help people find ways to reduce the amount of GAS that they suffer from. But in...

  
• 01.12.2023

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 143 - Resolution:2023

  We're at the start of a new Season! And why not have a trip around the table to discuss our team's goals, resolutions, projects and other photographic things we're each looking forward to through 2023? The common theme throughout our...

  
• 12.29.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 142 - The Year That Was - 2022

  We've made it here to the end of another year and another season of the Classic Camera Revival! So why not join the whole team, John, Jess, Chris, Bill and Alex, as we talk about everything we have been using...

  
• 12.08.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 141 - The Dangerfield Zone

  There are no saxophone solos in this episode because we aren't heading into the Danger Zone, but rather the Dangerfield Zone. Join Alex, John, and Bill as they discuss cameras and films that just get no respect! Subjects include Miranda...

  
• 11.24.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 140 - Worth the Effort

  Let’s face it; film photography can be fairly frustrating. A lot can go wrong, and some things can be more difficult when viewed through a modern context. But then there are some cameras, films, and processes that can be worth...

  
• 11.10.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 139 - Twenty-Four FPS Pt. 2

  As a follow-up to part one, where the team tackled the black & white motion picture films that have been creeping into the still photography lane, on this episode, we're talking about the colour films that are available from the...

  
• 10.27.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 138 - Seventies Electric

  The 1970s were weird. Polyester leisure suits, disco, drugs, and all the euphoria of the post-war boom before the crashing realisation of the 1980s. But it also was a major turning point for the photography market. You had the small...

  
• 10.13.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 137 - Cursed Cameras

  The team here digs into the cursed cameras as we get into the spooky season. Those that never worked right or had something strange going on made us want to call in a young priest and an old priest. These...

  
• 09.29.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 136 - Get Tanked!

  In today's episode, the team sets about discussing their favourite single malt scotches and whiskeys, well, not really. We consume some fine single-malt during our lively discussion about developing tanks and different systems for home processing, from the simple to...

  
• 09.09.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 135 - Mystery Camera Challenge V

  We're going back to the Mystery Camera Challenge, only this time Alex is picking out cameras for the team from his collection and choosing cameras that will certainly challenge the folks who are used to certain types and styles of...

  
• 08.25.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 134 - Recent Developments

  While Film Photography has been around for a while, some recent developments have occurred within the hobby and community. So in today's episode, Alex, James, John, and Bill sit down to discuss the recently B&W; developers they've been using and...

  
• 08.11.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 133 - Summer Lovin’ On Film

  While we might be heading into the last days of Summer, that doesn't mean we can't look back and look forward to next year with the team's favourite choices for film stocks during the hot and humid days of Canadian...

  
• 07.28.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 132 - Ring ’Round the Commonwealth

  In today's episode, joining James, Bill, and John are two fellow film photographers, podcasters, YouTubers, and generally all-around amazing people, Matt Murray and Lucy Lumen from Australia. The team talks about all things film photographers across two parts of the...

  
• 07.15.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 131 - A Family Affair

  One thing that always happens is that as a photographer you usually end up with a camera that belonged to a family member, or maybe a family member encouraged you through the gift of a camera and guidance with using...

  
• 06.23.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 130 - Voices of Women II

  It's our annual episode where the entire show is taken over by an all-women team! So join Chris and Jess as they host a roundtable with a group of amazing photographers!

  
• 06.09.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 129 - The F Goes Electric

  After a long delay, we're continuing our drive into the professional model Nikon SLRs. The third version or Nikon F3 came out in 1981 and marked a major shift both in design and internals. The Nikon F3 relied on battery...

  
• 05.26.2022

  Classic Camera Revival - Episode 128 - In the Loupe: Lina Bessonova

  Suppose you've been living under a rock. In that case, the name Lina Bessonova may not be familiar to you, but if you're active on social media and deep in the online film photography community, then the name Lina Bessonova!...