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13 May, 2026

Leica 50mm Lenses – The “Goldilocks Leica Lens Challenge” Day Two – Summicron vs. Summitar…

By Scott Ferguson

For me, a good photo outing starts before I pick up a camera or leave the house. Of course, I’d never go out shooting without a loaded camera, and depending on how ambiti...

10 May, 2026

Lubitel 166 (vs. Bronica ETRSi) – Testing an impulse purchase

By Roger

Having succumbed to the temptation to impulse buy a camera that I knew only by its reputation for having long been the inexpensive way into medium format, a Lubitel 166, I decid...

7 May, 2026

Shooting Pano on a Hasselblad

By Scott Ferguson

There have been more than a few interesting posts over the last couple of months exploring various approaches to shooting in a panoramic format, including Simon Foale’s pi...

5 May, 2026

Why Writing About Photography Matters (or: The Importance of Re-inventing the Wheel)

By Andrea Monti

This is the second of my series of short essays on photography – the first can be found here. The title might sounds like a pre-emptive justification for clogging the Inte...

30 April, 2026

Print, Hold, Spend: Making a £175 Consumer Photobook and What It Taught Me

By Danilo Leonardi

This article is partly a process note and partly a reflection on working with a consumer photobook service. It comes out of a small group project to make books for an in-store d...

27 April, 2026

Reasonably Wide and Sensibly Priced – 28mm Compacts Comparison

By Douwe Krooshof

For an analogue photographer, the 28mm focal length is the gold standard for street photography, and it is a great focal length to document daily life. Yet finding a high-qualit...

A film, with multiple images that was not a double exposure

24 April, 2026

A cautionary tale with a long expired film

By Roger

A mint condition Lubitel 166 for a reasonable (very low) price at a flea fair turned out to have a half-exposed film in it. I have other TLRs and I have no doubt that they are m...

17 April, 2026

Photography Does Not Exist (Until the Eye Makes It)

By Andrea Monti

This post is the first of a series meant to organise in a logical and structured corpus the ideas collected in this blog throughout years of taking photos in various environment...

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Walter Reumkens on My LX100 and why the new Panasonic L10 doesn’t appeal
I'm pretty sure of that, Gary. The same camera and lens, but with a hefty mark-up for a different camera…
Julian Buck on 7Artisans 60mm 2.8 Macro Lenses – A Comparison of Two Lenses for Film Scanning
Hi and many thanks for taking the time to fully review and posting results here. I've been on the forums…
Kodachromeguy on Leica 50mm Lenses – The “Goldilocks Leica Lens Challenge” Day Two – Summicron vs. Summitar…
My Summitar works well in a situation like a narrow alley. I focus on the center, which is far away…

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