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28 October, 2024

Tele Rolleiflex Review – I will not be separated from this camera

By Leon Van Kemenade

It hardly seems possible but I only accepted my Tele Rolleiflex into my life a smidge over one year ago. It feels like much longer. My story is perhaps typical, a digital shoote...

27 October, 2024

Washi E – A Very Peculiar Film

By Neal Wellons

Film Washi is a French company that sources and respools unusual and often unique photographic media on consumer friendly rolls, cassettes, and even in large format. I have hea...

24 October, 2024

Vivitar 19mm f3.8 – Exactly What it Should Be

By Sebastian Shields

Late one night, I was on a deep dive into finding a lens that matched a narrow, and somewhat arbitrary set of requirements I set. A mess of browser tabs covered my monitor. Most...

23 October, 2024

Canon 110 ED Review

By Tony Warren

I am able to get to know this well specified Canon 110 ED camera and the Minox 110S I wrote about recently thanks to Bob Janes’ generous gift. Bob has posted several informative...

22 October, 2024

LightPix Labs FlashQ M20 – Hitting the street with a new flash

By Sasha Tsyrlin

I was never a big fan of flash photography. But during the pandemic I took a Magnum online photography class which introduced me to flash photography technics of Martin Parr and...

21 October, 2024

Konica IIIM – Caves, Fog, and Review

By David Tan

At the current stage of my photographic journey, I enjoy normal prime lenses. When I go on trips, whether it’s with my Nikon F2 or my Canon P, I often find that the 28 or 35mm i...

18 October, 2024

Nikkor-H Auto 2.8cm f/3.5 – Wakimoto’s Triumph and Nikon’s Hidden Legacy

By Andrew Bibee

In the late 1950s, one of Nikon’s lead designers at the time, Zenji Wakimoto, was handed down an arduous task that would prove to be one of his greatest triumphs: “Make a lens t...

17 October, 2024

Leica R3 – a camera I was never expecting to buy!

By Phil Harrison

If I hadn’t looked at a certain film camera shops website after I was advised of the bulk movie b/w film they are re-spooling and selling very cheap, I wouldn’t have...

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