Documentar obras de arte, especialmente as de grande formato que fazem parte intrínseca de um patrimônio cultural, é um problema que pode ser muito difícil, senão impossível, de atacar corretamente…
A fotografia é a técnica que permite registrar o mundo, que é tridimensional, em apenas duas dimensões. Em outras palavras, a informação que vem do mundo contém largura, altura e…
O Velho e o Mar foi a obra que rendeu o prêmio Nobel de literatura a Ernest Hemmingway em 1954. Daí se vê, especialmente porque na década de 50 o…
A long time ago, in the 90s, my dad gave me a refracting telescope as a Christmas gift. It is a Bushnell 600 mm refracting scope that was supposedly capable…
Everybody has old family photos at home, and sometimes they are almost one century old. However, as nothing lasts forever, old photographs also age and they usually get damaged over…
The Canon Prima Zoom 80u (in Europe and South America) or Sure Shot 80u (in North America) is a compact point-and-shoot 35mm film camera loaded with amazing features and aimed…
Since I am a Pentax fanboy, I was looking for more 35mm SLR cameras with the K-mount standard. One day, I found this camera in a local listings site (like…
In this article, I'm going to talk about one of my favorite 35mm SLR cameras, the Sears KS500. It is a very typical SLR, with all-manual controls and a very…
Praktica was the official film camera brand from Eastern Germany's legendary Zeiss company through the Pentacon factory. Just for this fact alone, you can see we are talking about legendary…
The Minolta Maxxum 5000 is a 35mm SLR film camera from the 90s intended for intermediary users. It has all the common features of SLRs of its time but has…