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8 February, 2020

Re-Acquainting with Adox Scala B&W Slide Film – By Ken Davis

By Ken Davis

A bit of background, I've been taking photos for more than 50 years starting with Prakticas (models FXII, IV and V) using a Prakticamat for many years, then a Chinon Memotron. I...

7 February, 2020

Kodak Tri-X Review – Five Decades and Counting of Praise – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

At the beginning of every new year, full of ambitious resolutions, I try to do some cleaning up at home, both physical and electronic. The physical does not achieve all that muc...

6 February, 2020

A slightly troubled tale of replacing vintage camera leather – by Christopher James

By Pixels and Grain Photography Collective

I’ve started seeing more photos of vintage cameras with their leather covers replaced, and to me they often look great. Other than a few useful flickr posts and some short video...

5 February, 2020

5 Frames with an Olympus 35RC on Lomography 800 in Bogotá – by Bob Witteman

By bobwitteman

A lot of photographers can relate to the dilemma that arises on what gear to bring when you start planning your trip. For me going to Colombia the issue of safety happened to be...

4 February, 2020

Finding Subjects in Familiar Sights – by Chris Illing

By Chris

It’s December the 23. 2018. Midnight. I’m standing in the bathroom of my parents house brushing my teeth. It felt like nothing had changed since my childhood. Everything as usua...

3 February, 2020

Own Your Workflow and Goals (and don’t get too distracted by the mantras of others)

By Hamish Gill

One of the wonderful things about photography is how broad it is as a pastime. The options are absolutely endless, from capture media, camera type, process to display. In fact, ...

2 February, 2020

Travelling Myanmar Solo with Black & White Film – By Jelle Vonk

By Jelle Vonk

My unexposed rolls of film, put together in a plastic zip bag ready to pass through security. ‘These cannot go through the scanner’ I said firmly. No problem at all, just wait h...

1 February, 2020

Doing my Thing (with a Fuji or two) – By Thorsten Wulff

By thorsten

I love my Fuji. The X100s that is. A couple of weeks ago I went to a function at the german parliament. Security is tight, like when boarding a plane you face scanners, bullet p...

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I have yet to explore Russian cameras. Not sure that I need to. I have a Barnack iiic as well…
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