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23 December, 2025

Bad Luck at Heian Jingu Shrine – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

As it is customary in Japanese Shinto shrines, also the Heian Jingu in Kyoto has an area where bad luck is left hanging in the open. 御御籤 —o-mikuji—are small strips of paper t...

Close-up shot of a worn wooden panel mounted on a tiled wall, displaying four rows of vintage, cream-colored rotary fan speed controllers and two bottom rows of electrical sockets. A small red fire extinguisher is mounted directly beneath the panel.

17 December, 2025

Kopitiam Command Centre – One Shot Story

By Keith A Yeo

Shot on Kodak Gold 200 film, on a Yashica 35 GSN. Disclosure, I did straighten the photo digitally, because of the life of me it appears I can’t take a straight photograph...

27 November, 2025

5 Frames, No Kings

By Scott Ferguson

I was excited to bring my M3 to the recent No Kings protest in Manhattan in October. I don’t have a huge amount of experience shooting ‘documentary’ style to ...

28 October, 2025

My Introduction to Film Photography

By Randy Castillo

My introduction into photography began many years ago around 2015 or 2016 with a Sony digital a5000. A small compact APS-C camera I purchased from Best Buy for a whopping $400! ...

24 August, 2025

Hanoi’s Beer Street with a Broken Ricoh GR1v

By Ali MC

Beer Street, Hanoi. As the name suggests, yes – you can drink beer here. Many beers, in fact, a feat I had evidently achieved this particular evening. Along with inhaling nitrou...

22 August, 2025

Ricoh GX200 – the GR Digital Zoom

By Javier Martínez Delgue

The Ricoh GX200 is a camera that, despite not having been officially part of the GR family, was conceptualized and designed as if it were. In 2007, Ricoh took the essence of its...

3 June, 2025

Wales – Through the Twin Eyes of a Rolleiflex 3.5F Rollei Pan 25 and Rollei Retro 400s

By Ibraar Hussain

I’ve been digging in the vaults lately, having too much time on my hand and a new scanner I had been putting together an article on a Contax TVS I, TVS II, TVS II and T2 &...

1 May, 2025

Ensign Selfix 820 and a roll of FP4+ in Birmingham

By Roger

I have long been interested in trying a camera with larger negatives, but because the Fuji GW690 is rather expensive for something that might turn out to be of no more than nove...

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