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8 August, 2021

A Glimpse into My Photo Hoarding – By Larissa Almeida

By Larissa Almeida

I feel as if I first should introduce myself. Hi I’m Larissa, I grew up surrounded by pictures. My mum had always loved taking photos of me and my brother, the family and our su...

7 August, 2021

Bringing Textures to Life with Ilford Delta 3200 – By Daniel Boklage

By Daniel Boklage

“There is a certain life to your photographs that extends beyond the organic matter.” Wow, does he really mean what he's saying? That's what went through my mind when I first re...

6 August, 2021

Three Rolls of Foma at the Fairground With a Minolta Autocord – By Charles Cave

By Charles Cave

Movies were not square. Cartoons were not square. Magazines were not square. Postcards were not square. Since childhood (I’m 33) I had resisted the photographic coffee-coaster r...

5 August, 2021

5 Frames with a Leica Summicron DR 50mm f/2 on a Leica M240 – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

The first lens I procured for my Leica M3 body was a 1958 Summicron 50mm f/2 Dual Range (DR). The Dual Range is unique among Leica 50mm Summicrons because it allows for close ra...

4 August, 2021

More Portraits Please – Making Opportunities to Photograph People – By Peggy Marsh

By Peggy Marsh

Recently I posted a couple of portraits on my Instagram feed and someone commented that it made a nice change. That comment got me thinking, why aren’t there many portraits? How...

3 August, 2021

Yashica Elite 70 Review – No Zeiss No Problem – By Sean Benham

By Sean Benham

When I hear about Yashica and point and shoot cameras I think of the T series. Just doing a search on eBay, T3 and T4 start in the $300 range. As we know with many of these plas...

2 August, 2021

Vintage Lenses in Cinema vs. Photography – Finding that “Secret Source”

By Hamish Gill

Not so long ago, Kosmo Foto reported on the fact that the latest Zack Snyder film, ‘Army of the Dead’ had been entirely shot with Canon 50mm 0.95 “dream” lenses. Reading that ar...

1 August, 2021

How to use a Modern Flash Gun with a Leica M3, M2 and M1 – By Phong Nguyen

By Phong Nguyen

Photographers using Leica M film cameras often say that they do not need flash and prefer to shoot in ambient light. However, if you go through websites related to Leica, the su...

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