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11 December, 2024

The Whole Roll: 100 TMax in an Ordinary Place, on an Ordinary Day, in an Extraordinary camera (the Rolleiflex 2.8F).

By David Smith

“I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don’t try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.” — Andy Warhol The images on...

16 November, 2024

Dust and mud and the marbles

By Cem Eren

Dave Powell had recently published a post about his adventures with c-mount marble macros. I commented on that post saying he had inspired me to shoot my marbles which were rece...

25 October, 2024

5 frames Rediscovering my Pentax 67… and then another 5…

By John Duder

I bought a 6×7, the slightly earlier model, around 1989: it was stolen in 1992, and the replacement is the less stylishly-named 67. It’s been sitting on the shelf for some ...

24 October, 2024

A Few Shots with the 7Artisans 35mm f/0.95 in X-Mount

By Andrea Monti

Let’s get straight to the point: here are a few shots taken with a Fuji X-T4 and a 7 Artisans 35mm f/.0.95 (obviously) in X-mount. All photos were taken at the widest (nom...

11 October, 2024

The Whole Roll – Kodak Portra 160 – Summer, New Orleans City Park.

By Ivan Baptista Jr

I know, I know—color film. Something about the way the Portra family renders those dreamy pastels calls to me—some background before we start. I am 30-something years old now, m...

25 July, 2024

5 frames with a Canon SureShot Zoom XL in Croatia

By Sasha Rose

I have taken film cameras on holiday before. Normally small, plastic ones that fit comfortably in my pocket and will allow me to take a couple of pictures of nothing in particul...

21 July, 2024

The Cost of the Mamiya 7

By Andrew

In the early days of the pandemic I purchased a Mamiya 7 kit from an old timer at a reasonable price. This had long been a dream camera of mine and I had been searching for one ...

8 July, 2024

Canon 50mm Serenar f/1.9 – The Serene Beauty of the Japanese Summitar

By Andrew Bibee

When talking about popular third party 50mm LTM lenses, the conversation occasionally leads to the Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens, oftentimes called the “Japanese Summilux.” That fast fi...

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