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7 August, 2020

Vivitar Tec 45 / Panasonic C-600 Review – Remarkable Machines Without A Reputation – By Thang Nguyen

By Thang Nguyen

This maybe the first time you have heard of The Vivitar Tec 45? It's a re-branded camera made by Panasonic for the US market, and is branded as the Panasonic C-600 for the rest ...

6 August, 2020

Film Shots – Another Film Exif App For Android And iOS, But With A Difference – By Oleksii Novikov

By Oleksii Novikov

I hope you will love my new app 'Film Shots' - it lets you log your data right from the Lock screen and integrates with Lightroom.

4 August, 2020

The Colours of Shanghai / How I came to Publish a Photozine of XPAN shots – By Benoît Felten

By Ben Felten

I am in the process of publishing (and pre-selling) a zine called The Colours of Shanghai. It collects panoramic XPAN photos taken in Shanghai between 2014 and 2016. In August ...

3 August, 2020

Samsung EX2F Review – A Pocket Camera No One Remembers – Orkhan Abbasov

By Orkhan Abbasov

In 2014 my sister was looking forward to buying a new camera and asked for a suggestion. I don’t remember when or where I first heard about Samsung EX2F. It caught my attention ...

3 August, 2020

Tokyo Optical Co. Topcor 50mm f/1.5 LTM (Semi-Sonnar) Mini-Review

By Hamish Gill

This Tokyo Optical Co. (Topcon) Topcor 50mm f/1.5 ltm is a bit of a rarity. It’s also something of an oddity inasmuch as it has been described to me by Perry Ge (off of the Clas...

31 July, 2020

Grain2Pixel Review – A Photoshop Plugin for Converting Negatives – By Arild Edvard Båsmo

By ArilBas

Today I am going to review a new piece of software, or rather a plugin to Adobe Photoshop called Grain2Pixel, which can convert scans of negative film into positive images. It c...

27 July, 2020

Konica Big Mini F Review – Is It As Good As It Looks? – By Thang Nguyen

By Thang Nguyen

The Konica Big Mini series is a premium line-up from Konica. These cameras are known for their sleek design while still being decent performers. The last of the line-up was the ...

22 July, 2020

Tiffen Black Pro Mist Filter (1/8), on Digital & MF film – by Pierre-Alix Favillier

By pierrealx

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