Category: Travel Tales

Cameras, Buying Film, and Film Labs

Cameras Acquiring a film camera is both easier and more difficult than you think. Plenty of antique stores have old film cameras. However, they may not always work or they may take a type of film that is no longer made. Disposable cameras are still available but being one time use they aren’t the best

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Small Town Kansas in Film

Over the summer we went to Keltin’s home town for the 4th of July. Keltin’s parents gave us their old Pentax K1000 35mm camera. The only film owe had for it right then was a roll of 400iso Kodak film that had expired 20 years before. Thankfully, expired film can be used. Quick research told

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A Rollicord Review of Sorts

You may have noticed an influx of film photos in the last year and I think it is time to discuss the camera itself or at least the initial one. Anytime we get a new piece of equipment I have Keltin review it for me, for this blog, because he is primarily the one behind

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Traveling with Film

I have been considering this film series for a while and obviously I’m not talking about film as in movies but film as in analog format photos. A little over a year ago Keltin got a 120mm TLR camera for his birthday. This Rollicord camera was built in Germany in 1938 and still takes fantastic

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Waco Mammoth National Monument

I am way behind on my posting. Blame the holidays. Back in September I had the opportunity to visit the Waco Mammoth National Moment. This is site has actually been on my list to visit for a while and I was happy to finally have a chance to visit. This location is the only know

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Phoenix in Review

This was a great – if hot – trip. We had the opportunity to see a variety of what Phoenix had to offer. There is more that I would like to do in the area, particularly hiking but summer was not the best time for that activity. If you missed any of the posts, see

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Arizona: Desert Botanic Garden

When visiting the Desert Botanic Garden in the summer visitors should plan early. We originally were going to arrive at 9am but after a couple of days in the sun we decided to get there when they opened at 7am. Yes, you do have to pick a time slot when buying tickets and yes, that time

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Arizona: Exploring Scottsdale

I want to point out that the middle of the summer is NOT the tourist season in Arizona and I don’t recommend it. That being said, we were there in the summer and so we explored. It was nice exploring with few people around but on the other side of that a lot of the

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