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17 February, 2023

Quick Thoughts on Eight of the Nikkor Nifty Fifties – by David Hume

By David Hume

Several months ago I wrote a piece on my newly acquired Nikon Df. The piece was OK, but I’ve thought since then that I didn’t really do the camera justice. My though...

16 February, 2023

NEWS: Global Photography Competition Aimed At Raising Awareness of Canon’s Sustainability Practices

By Molly Kate

A global photography competition has been launched by corporate accountability group Action Speaks Louder as part of their campaign to battle tech giant Canon and their associat...

16 February, 2023

5 frames with a lost Kodak ColorPlus 200, a Leica M3 & 40mm Summicron-C – By Hugo Munoz

By Hugo Munoz

Finding an unscanned film from a few months ago is nothing compared to great photographers finding amazing images from decades ago. But for me who likes to develop at home as so...

16 February, 2023

5 Frames with a Voigtlander Bessa 66 and Lomography Berlin – By Ian Whitney

By Ian Whitney

I inherited my grandfather’s Voigtlander Bessa 66 from my parents around 2010, along with a collection of 35mm equipment that had belonged to my dad and me. My grandfather had s...

15 February, 2023

Appreciating the Challenges of Photography in 1932 (5 Frames with a Leica II & Elmar 5cm f/3.5 Lens) – By Reed George

By Reed George

Leica rangefinder cameras have defined small format photography from its beginning and persist to the current day. Maybe you know about the digital rangefinders, including the M...

14 February, 2023

The Spoiled Negatives from a Spoiled Petri 7s – By Ana Sousa

By Ana Sousa

I started shooting exclusively in analogue approximately 5 years ago. At the beginning it was like entering a carousel full of expectations and experiences. I wanted to learn ev...

14 February, 2023

That time I “Half-Framed” a cute Kodak Flash Bantam camera (Part 1 of 3)

By Dave Powell

I’ve long wanted a half-frame 35mm camera. Doubling one’s images per roll is especially great now that film costs more. I’m an inveterate tinkerer, though, and preferred to conv...

13 February, 2023

Minolta XM Compared to the Nikon F2 – Between Myth and Market – By Alex Peter

By Alex Peter

In 1973, the year of the Minolta XM's launch, Minolta had been serving the consumer market very successfully for several years with the SR-T . There, it was a hard-to-beat queen...

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Neal Wellons on When Bad Light is Good for Holgas – The Whole Roll
Thanks Jeffery. I'll take a look into Clacks and am looking forward to seeing your article.
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What you say about being present and absent at the same time reflects how those days felt to me. I’m…
Danilo Leonardi on Notes from a Journey Taken at Short Notice
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