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8 September, 2024

Kamera with a K – An ode to a love of Kamera: Shooting Seoul with a long missed Zeiss Ikon ZM

By Nigel Gardner

I love cameras and this is a little bit of a love story. I always have – ever since I picked up my older brothers much used Halina 35X and put a roll of Tudor – a UK...

5 September, 2024

Early Auto Exposure – Three Different Approaches

By Tony Warren

When my original plans for the Agfa Selecta M I bought a little impulsively recently were clearly not going to happen, the camera type in general began to interest me. I already...

4 September, 2024

When Kitsch Becomes Collectible

By Dave Powell

I just experienced huge culture shock about that thing up there. During the 1980s and early ‘90s, I was a computer-networking journalist and editor for publications like ...

3 September, 2024

My Asylum Years

By John Greene

Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was q...

28 August, 2024

The Stupidity of Being Stubborn

By Andrea Monti

I knew exactly that I was going to fail, but I did it anyway, irrationally thinking that for some not well clear reason the law of physics and optics could be defied by the sacr...

27 August, 2024

A Collector’s Journey From Microscopes to Cancer to Cameras

By David Smith

My passion for film photography began with a different sort of vintage lens, the kind you mount to an aged brass microscope. I’m a biologist and have always been fascinat...

17 August, 2024

The beginning of a TLR Challenge

By Geoff Chaplin

Like many other photographers it seems, I have problems with TLRs. It’s not that the format is new – I used to use a Hasselblad regularly for 5 years or so –...

12 August, 2024

The Camera that Launched my Career… and Nearly Devastated me.

By Jeffery Luhn

I’m talking about the EXA 1-A, my first ‘grown-up’ camera. Don’t confuse this model with classic Exacta cameras with leaf or focal plane shutters. Th...

John Greene on Minolta 7000 – Finding an eBay Bargain
Jeff I used to be a diehard Olympus OM1, Nikon F2, Canon F1 etc type of guy strictly manual cameras…
David Smith on 5 Digital Frames Transferred to Film (An Experiment)
What an interesting experiment. The photos look beautiful. Thanks for the article.
Jens Kotlenga on 5 Digital Frames Transferred to Film (An Experiment)
Very interesting! I would be very keen so see a side-by-side comparison of the original digital file and the reproduction…

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