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1 March, 2022

Reflecting on a Year of Photography – By Wes Hall

By Wes Hall

Photos are wonderful right? Particularly what we feel are our best photos. I would encourage everyone to attempt reflecting on their art, maybe in a fashion similar to how I've ...

28 February, 2022

Industar-69 (on Fujifilm X-Pro3) Review – A Dreamy, Compact Wonder – By Don Goodman Wilson

By Don Goodman-Wilson

The Industar-69 (Индуста́р-69) is a strange but beguiling beast. Originally designed for the Chaika (Чайка) camera, it wasn't really meant to be used with other cameras. The ori...

27 February, 2022

Saving Glass Plates From WW1 – By Michell Boysen

By Michell Smedegaard Boysen

Living in a small town in the countryside has its pros and cons.  One of the pros (or cons) being that if you work in an area outside of the ordinary,  most people know about it...

26 February, 2022

The American Southwest – 3 Days, 3 Rolls of Film Part 1 – The Painted Desert Inn – By John Pemberton

By John Pemberton

I got out of the car and the sun was shining. Of course it was. I had spent the previous 5 hours hiking the trails under a thick veil of clouds that smothered any source of co...

25 February, 2022

The Honeymooners – October 1983 – By William Brown

By Bill Brown

Welcome to my time-travelogue. The event will be my honeymoon with my beautiful bride Marie. Now, this isn’t your everyday honeymoon story but our travelogue documenting our tri...

24 February, 2022

Sabatier Effect with a B&W Negative and Color RA4 Process – by Séverine Chauveau

By Séverine Chauveau

I am a photographer based in Reunion Island (a French territory in the Indian Ocean), and for a few years now, my practice has been focused on experimental photography. I really...

23 February, 2022

5 Frames with Expired Kodak Plus X and my Favorite Classic Manual Cameras – By Zheng Li

By Zheng Li

Recently I acquired some expired B&W film. I have heard about this film before, but never tried. It was the Kodak Plus-X in 4x5 sheets, which expired in 1981. Plus-x was an ISO ...

22 February, 2022

The Leica for a Year Project – By Patrick Medd

By Patrick Medd

The Venn diagram describing the readership of 35mmc and of Mike Johnston’s blog ‘The Online Photographer’, may not have a huge amount of overlap—on the other hand it may, I don’...

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