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2 July, 2026

M-Kamera (Magic, Mental, My!) – Fixing the smartphone photography

By vzzdor

The best camera is the one with you, and yet most photographers, including myself despise smartphones as photographic tools. There are some good reasons for that, but for me per...

10 June, 2026

Fotopro Origin Travel Tripod – Long-term Review

By Sroyon

Tripods, I feel, are among the less glamorous photography accessories. They don’t have the technical wizardry of gimbals and drones, nor the whizbang street-cred of flashe...

26 May, 2026

The new Viltrox TTL Vintage Z1 Pro Flash – Their best flash yet

By Mike Brooks

Viltrox, known primarily as a third-party manufacturer of super sharp, budget friendly prime camera lenses, continues to expand its inventory of adjacent camera products. This ...

Frames film photography logbook & Metadata iPhone app

21 May, 2026

Frames, One Year Later – Building a Film Photography Logbook App Full Time

By Vincent

A year ago I wrote a piece here introducing Frames, an app to log film photography metadata and write it back into your scans. What I didn’t tell you was that I’d ju...

9 May, 2026

Ulanzi WLF – A Waist‑Level Experiment With a Broken Nikon D80

By Max Tiraquon

I should start of by saying I ran my first draft through some AI to make it a little more readable, I just scrapped through my English exams in school. Anyway originally it was ...

Pellica film roll tracker app for analog photographers

6 May, 2026

Pellica – Why I Built an App to Track My Film Rolls

By Imad Djebarni

Last November I sent three rolls to my lab and more or less forgot about them. When the envelope came back three weeks later I spread the negatives on my desk and tried to work ...

30 April, 2026

C41 Development Isn’t the Problem – Guessing Is!

By James Maher

I didn’t set out to build an app. I’m a photographer. I built it because I got fed up with guessing (and sometimes getting it wrong). Home C41 development is full of it. Not the...

27 April, 2026

Nodus x Beers & Cameras Obscura II DLC Exposure Gauge Complication Watch Review

By Hamish Gill

This is a review of a watch – the Nodus x Beers & Cameras ‘Obscura II DLC’ to be precise. I wouldn’t normally write about watches, but this particular watch has a plac...

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