January 18 is a very special day, for many reasons. Jesus was proclaimed as Christ, Kevin Costner was born and the Sierra Leone Civil War was declared to be over. And in 1982, in a rainy city on Canada’s west coast called Vancouver, a small photo store called Beau Photo Supplies was founded. Believe it…
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The Pentax K1000 has become well known over the past three decades as one of the best cameras for people looking to get started in photography. This is mainly due to how simple it is to operate. There are no frills when it come to features. The K1000 was introduced in 1976 as the basic,…
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Let’s face it, film photography is becoming a luxury these days. Much like horses and golf, and soon to be combustion engine automobiles, what started out as a tool for the masses has become a rare inconvenience only the privileged are doomed to enjoy. This is exacerbated by the rising costs associated with it. It’s…
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NOTE: The opinions expressed in this article may not be representative of Beau Photo Supplies and its affliates. The Nikon F. Ah, the Nikon F. The gran-daddy of it all. Much has been said about this camera. It wasn’t the first SLR (the Kine-Exakta was ), but it was the first that was actually…
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Photography is old. It’s not as old as drawing or painting, but it’s still old. The oldest surviving photograph, a heliographic photograph titled View From the Window at Le Gras is from 1827. That is almost two 90 year old people living back to back! With that, in the 19th century there was landslide of…
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What? Isn’t Ektar a colour film? How could you develop it with a black and white developer? Fun fact, the base layer of a C-41 film before the colour layers are black and white. So with black and white chemicals you’re essentially washing away the colour sensitive layers. This is how this accident happened (I…
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The Rollei RPX series is, in my opinion, film that never seem to get enough love. It’s easy to see why. The market is somewhat saturated with black and white film, with options from the major players like Kodak and Ilford as well as plenty more from smaller niche manufacturers like Bergger and Film Ferrania….
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Ah it’s so damn sunny outside now. Everyone is taking out their linen sheets and wearing their shorts. Great time to be learning sunny 16, too. And because it’s so beautiful out, we thought that perhaps it’s now time to start shooting more slow films, like this weeks film Friday, Rollei’s Retro 80S! We’ve covered…
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This week’s film Friday will be one of the craziest and most special films currently on the market today that all of us hope will NEVER be discontinued in our lifetimes. Yup, it’s our favorite camera reviewer Ken Rockwell’s favorite film of all time, its Fujifilm’s Velvia 50! When people say that no digital camera…
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Film Friday this week will be a classic that we all love so dearly, and its Kodak’s Kodachrome colour positive slide film! Kodachrome has been around for a long time, as it was one of the first truly successful colour processes . The film as we know it today was first introduced in 1935, being…
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