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12 May, 2026

Under Snow, the City Becomes Uncertain – A One Shot Story

By Danilo Leonardi

12 May, 2026

/ Street & Urban Photography, /

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11 May, 2026

The City Speaking All At Once – A One Shot Story

By Danilo Leonardi

I was there after a morning meeting, part of the routine marketing work that freelancing tends to require, now walking through central London on my way to the tube station with ...

11 May, 2026

Mandler 35mm F2 7 Element review

By vincentbihler

Mandler is one of the most recent brands to enter the M-mount lens market. The Mandler name and branding clearly echo Leica DNA – and their first released lens – Man...

10 May, 2026

Lubitel 166 (vs. Bronica ETRSi) – Testing an impulse purchase

By Roger

Having succumbed to the temptation to impulse buy a camera that I knew only by its reputation for having long been the inexpensive way into medium format, a Lubitel 166, I decid...

9 May, 2026

Ulanzi WLF – A Waist‑Level Experiment With a Broken Nikon D80

By Max Tiraquon

I should start of by saying I ran my first draft through some AI to make it a little more readable, I just scrapped through my English exams in school. Anyway originally it was ...

8 May, 2026

ΔStop – The Darkroom Timer I Had to Build Because the Right One Didn’t Exist

By John Jones

You’ve been here before: it’s late, you’ve got a negative with a gorgeous composition loaded up in your enlarger, the grain is hitting just right, but you cann...

digital camera scanning a 110 film negative

8 May, 2026

Valoi easy35 – How this film negative scanning system improves your workflow, and in anticipation of the v.2 …

By Andrew Long

I’m a big fan of the easy35 system from Finnish company Valoi which has really improved my film negative scanning workflow. It is a very simple but capable system which fits ont...

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Elizabeth Bush on Kodak DC3200 – Kodak’s Digital Automatic Box Camera
I have the DC3200. THe battery door will not lock after putting the batteries in. THe door looks and feels…
Danilo Leonardi on The City Speaking All At Once – A One Shot Story
Walter, thank you for this comment. I enjoyed reading it because it prompted me to think again about my own…
Danilo Leonardi on The City Speaking All At Once – A One Shot Story
Thank you very much for such a perceptive and very generous comment. Part of my intention was that sense of…

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