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9 December, 2025

Some thoughts on Sourcing Vintage Cameras and Lenses

By Marco Andrés

Image from a listing of the Voigtländer Vitoret 110 EL How many different ways are there to source a vintage camera or lens? While there are more than just these five, I will ju...

23 November, 2025

Minotars for mirrorless – Converting Minox 35 lenses for use on digital bodies

By Bob Janes

I’m a big fan of the Color-Minotar lens that graces the tiny body of the Minox 35 cameras. About the only thing that annoys me about the lens itself is the misspelling of ...

Golden Gate Bridge, Étude No. 14, San Francisco, USA. 2022.

15 November, 2025

Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process

By Olivier Desmet

Image above: Golden Gate Bridge, Étude No. 14, San Francisco, USA. 2022. Most analogue photography enthusiasts, in 2025, are digital/analogue hybrid practitioners. Who amongst f...

7 November, 2025

A Pair of Unusual Lenses Adapted to a Fuji GFX 50S

By Daniel Martínez Barber

Fuji GFX cameras produce extremely high-quality images, but native lenses are very expensive, hence my need to look for alternative options. I recommend the website deltalenses....

30 October, 2025

Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)

By John Bennett

After our recent road trip, which included a night at the Hotel Finlen in Butte, Montana, and a chance to photograph the window where Robert Frank made one of the 83 images incl...

20 October, 2025

Prakticas and Their Associated Lenses – Building A Film Camera and Lens System At Reasonable Cost

By Ken Davis

The post that Matt Reverzani gave us about his work with a Praktica L prompted me to write an article about this range of cameras. Now the Prakticas were always ‘bottom of the p...

19 October, 2025

Assignment of Exposures using Ansel Adams’ Zone System

By Cristian Ionescu

The purpose of this post is to get the reader a full picture on The Zone System explaining step by step the way it works. Since most tutorials I have come across with were too s...

17 October, 2025

Zorki 6 & Caffenol – Finding, fixing and developing – a new old experience

By Mark Statham

Back at the beginning of June this year (2025) while searching the dreaded eBay looking for my next new old camera to add to my growing collection I came across a Zorki 6 in ...

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