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Pullan Shipton & Co.

I refer to the book Views of British North Borneo, with a Brief history of the Colony published in 1899. Some of the photographs were taken by G W Johnstone, who was also a medical officer in the employment of the Chartered Company. However, many of

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Small glass plate sizes

I am copying/digitising some old family photographs taken by my late father-in-law. Some of these are glass plate negatives shot in the 1950s and feature sailing on the Thames? My father-in-law was not a photographer as such in that he took photograp

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3 Replies · Reply by Alan Hodgson Dec 11, 2024

Photograph Storage

I have a small - but growing! - collection of vintage photographs which are all kept in individual, 'proper', transparent archive grade sleeves.

Whilst these are great for helping preserve the photographs, I would like to keep them in an album for eas

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4 Replies · Reply by Rob Whalley Oct 9, 2024

Testing early lenses

Lenses were essential in the early days of photography and optical understanding had to evolve in order to produce lenses more suited to the requirements of photography. Today we assume that our modern lenses are immesely superior to those produced i

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