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19 April, 2019

Zenit-E: A Love Letter To The Unloved – By Dan Fernandez

By Dan Fernandez

Your kilo of soviet metal, your light meter which stopped working decades ago, your dark, murky viewfinder designed to just miss focus, your rewind mechanism engineered to give ...

18 April, 2019

5 Frames with a Mamiya C220 and Portra 160 NC – By Trenton Trammell

By Trenton Trammell

Buying a new camera is always a hard choice, but it's even harder when you have to relinquish a current piece of gear to do it. After about 3 months of deciding whether or not I...

17 April, 2019

5 Frames with an Olympus XA2 – By Filipa Leite Rosa

By filipaleiterosa

About ten years ago my boyfriend offered me a very weird looking camera, an Olympus Xa2. At that time, I had been shooting digital for about three years and was a super-amateur ...

16 April, 2019

NEWS: New Intrepid LF film Cameras & LIT Bluetooth Xenon Flash for your mobile

By Hamish Gill

A couple of little bits of news today from the opposite ends of the world of photography. The first is a new product from Marko Pirc; the chap who brought us the Lumu light mete...

16 April, 2019

5 Frames with My Thrift Store Olympus XA – by Tiffany Perez

By Tiffany Perez

Hello everyone! My name is Tiffany Perez and this is my first post to this site! I am so excited. I am from Southern California, born and raised. This past year has been an adve...

15 April, 2019

Shooting Leica Rangefinder Cameras with Third-Party Lenses is not a Crime!

By Hamish Gill

There’s an odd misconception about the use of Leica cameras that I often get challenged with - especially on social media. As someone who frequently uses 3rd-party lenses on my ...

14 April, 2019

5 Frames with Film Never Die IRO200, a Leica M3, Leica Summicron-M 50mm f/2 – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

On a recent trip to Melbourne, Australia, I decided to drop several of the city’s fine analog photography shops, including Film Never Die store on Bourke Street, a stone’s throw...

13 April, 2019

5 Frames with Kodak T-MAX P3200 (Pushed to 6400), a Leica M3 and v1 35mm Summicron – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

The other day, I was shooting in Tokyo’s Tsukiji outer market on a dark and drizzly morning. Not only was it overcast, but I was shooting in the shadows of buildings, so ISO 400...

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