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17 February, 2023

Quick Thoughts on Eight of the Nikkor Nifty Fifties – by David Hume

By David Hume

Several months ago I wrote a piece on my newly acquired Nikon Df. The piece was OK, but I’ve thought since then that I didn’t really do the camera justice. My though...

14 February, 2023

The Spoiled Negatives from a Spoiled Petri 7s – By Ana Sousa

By Ana Sousa

I started shooting exclusively in analogue approximately 5 years ago. At the beginning it was like entering a carousel full of expectations and experiences. I wanted to learn ev...

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...

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