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12 February, 2023

The Role of Film Photography in an AI World – By Joseph

By josephtwx

The position of film photography has never been stronger. Against the intangibility of our virtual reality, the medium of photography and its process gives viewers the craved ta...

27 January, 2023

A Year of Projects and Community Events (#TwentyTwentyDo) – by Billy Sanford

By Billy Sanford

It was episode 272 of the Sunny 16 podcast entitled “Blue Magic Tree” that kicked off 2022 and on which Graeme Jago proclaimed the year to be “Twenty Twenty Do”. The spirit of t...

23 January, 2023

Digital Cameras & the Future of Home Scanning – By Arild Edvard Båsmo

By ArilBas

What is the future of scanning at home going to look like? We will explore the future of home scanning thoroughly by looking at the history of film scanning, discussing how scan...

20 January, 2023

Finding my ideal 6×9 folder – Largest Negative in a Compact Travel Format – by Zheng Li

By Zheng Li

I have owned and used many different types of medium format cameras (TLR, SLR, folder, rigid body rangefinder), and I enjoy all of them for different reasons. But this article i...

17 January, 2023

The Digital Rangefinder: an Endangered Species? – by Ailbíona McLochlainn

By Ailbíona McLochlainn

It was just over a year ago, that I made my foray into the world of digital Leica M cameras. Admittedly, I was rather late to the party. But when it comes to photographic equipm...

10 January, 2023

Gear Theory – Shooting Film in the Rain – By Ted Ayre

By Ted Ayre

I grew up on my neighbours’ farm in the Lake District, England and spent lots of time as a child helping the adults outside with the sheep, lambs and cows in the pouring r...

30 December, 2022

Shooting infrared with a rangefinder camera, Rollei Infrared film and a Retina IIc – By Tony Warren

By Tony Warren

A comment on my review of Rollei Infrared film triggered this follow up. In his comment, Neal Wellons pointed out, quite correctly, that, for infrared photography, using a range...

20 December, 2022

Scan and Destroy – My blasphemous quest to be free of my negatives – By Max Cooper

By Max Cooper

The issue of SHOTS magazine current at the time of this writing contains images central to my thesis: Recovered slides from my grandfather’s collection. On the off-chance you mi...

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Alexandre Kreisman on A Heavy Visit – An Acount of Shooting an Emotive Subject – By Alex Kreisman
Hey Bill, I would say that If a person could see beauty in little things at time in the camps,…
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