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20 July, 2025

Oberwerth M Bag – Worth the Price-tag?

By Derek Hope

20 July, 2025

/ Camera bag, Oberwerth M Bag, /

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19 July, 2025

Meeting Jamel Shabazz – in which a chance encounter turns into a Master Class in street portraiture

By Scott Ferguson

Photographing people is easy in an urban setting like New York because they are everywhere. Getting good shots of people, maybe not so easy. In my early days of trying to shoot...

19 July, 2025

On Film Simulation or ‘is fiction more real than reality, and why should we care?’

By Andrea Monti

Simulations have turned an inevitable fact —using the chosen brand and type of film for an entire roll— into an aesthetic tool allowing the selection of the most appropriate ima...

Canon A1 | Black & White Negative film | Agfapan 400

18 July, 2025

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time

By Martin H

With the growing interest in analogue photography, as Bastian so inspiringly explores in his Analogue Adventures, I too have decided to create a series of film-related articles....

18 July, 2025

10 Frames – A Whole Pack of Polaroid SX70 – Venice 1995 #FullRollFriday by David Hume

By David Hume

I love a “Full Roll Friday” and I’ve done four of them in the past. But only one of mine was a full roll shot the conventional way – usually I’d find a way of cheati...

17 July, 2025

Still, Like Yesterday – One Shot Story

By Eagle Omomuro

My wife and I were seen as the lucky ones when we settled in Tasmania. We called it the great escape. Imagine this: fewer than six hundred thousand people living on a land of si...

17 July, 2025

Hanimex XP2 – An overview

By Tony Warren

Hanimex XP2 110 camera that is in need of attention.

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Jeffery Luhn on Meeting Jamel Shabazz – in which a chance encounter turns into a Master Class in street portraiture
Scott, Yes, that focus handle makes for quick work. Since you have the photo skills and are feeling comfortable wading…
Jeffery Luhn on 10 Frames – A Whole Pack of Polaroid SX70 – Venice 1995 #FullRollFriday by David Hume
David, Thanks for that window into the past! The opening photo is a beautiful tribute to a brilliant invention capturing…
Alexandre Kreisman on Leica M7 – A Trial Run, and My Decision Not to Keep It
Nicely done Hamish, even if I agree_ish with the comment the form isn't there! This one is my own experience…

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