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28 October, 2024

TLR Challenge: 2 – The Spirit in the Sky (A One Shot Story)

By Geoff Chaplin

This is a bit of an aside from the general theme of the challenge – equipment, method and composition. Something that just appeared and deserves its own entry. We arrived ...

25 October, 2024

My TLRs Over the Years

By Tony Warren

Examples of images made on a selection of twin lens reflex cameras.

21 October, 2024

From a 50 to a 35 – How I Changed My Perspective

By Nik Stanbridge

So, how exactly did you come to adopt a 35mm focal length lens as your everyday carry? Well, gradually and then very suddenly. For decades, since, well, I started out in photogr...

The elegant Olympus XA and my muddy shoes after 16km on wet mountain trails.

18 October, 2024

Running with cameras

By Eirik Holmøyvik

The great Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami wrote a book titled What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Let’s talk about running and photography. I am a passionate photogra...

17 October, 2024

TLR Challenge – My Response

By Jeffery Luhn

I’m Jeffery Luhn and I’m happy to respond to Geoff Chaplin’s TLR Challenge! Background: A week after beginning my career as a news photographer in 1969, I acqu...

2 October, 2024

TLR Challenge: 1 – User Errors

By Geoff Chaplin

There are no mistakes, only learning experiences. After about 8 weeks from the start of my challenge I’ve had plenty of learning experiences so I thought it would be worthwhile ...

25 September, 2024

4×5 reborn, or “What are those things?”

By Jeffery Luhn

For perspective, let’s rewind our brains. In a long-forgotten time, on a planet called Earth, there were no self-driving cars, no 20MP cell phone cameras, no affordable drones, ...

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...

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Jeffery Luhn on A Pair of Unusual Lenses Adapted to a Fuji GFX 50S
Daniel, I am very impressed that a projector lens is so sharp! Sure, an Ektar is going to be sharp,…
Jeffery Luhn on Kodak Tri-X 400 or Ilford HP5+ 400 who? when? where?
Giacomo, Thank you for your insights. I have not used Tri-X 35mm often for over 45 years. It always seemed…
Jeffery Luhn on Vivitar EZ Motor Big View – A modern box?
Tony, If the camera was not identified, I would have thought the shots were from a standard 35mm SLR. There's…

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