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9 January, 2026

Nikon IX 30-60mm – Resurrection of a Redundant Lens

By Edward Currie

I am writing here of the Nikon Pronea S, more specifically the APS Nikon 30-60mm lX kit lens that could not be used on any other Nikon brand SLR camera because the camera end of...

9 January, 2026

Carl Zeiss 80mm F2.8 SL66 Mount Adapted to Pentax 67

By Chi Zhang

The Pentax 67 system lacks a 35mm equivalent lens with large aperture. What, there is a 75AL? I’m too broke to have ever heard of it. So, I’ll have to adapt it myself. A Carl Ze...

3 January, 2026

Using a Panoramic Head Adapter – A simple technique for perfect stitching in panoramic landscape photography

By Cristian Ionescu

Large landscape panoramic pictures are possible via stitching many pictures. Each picture overlapping with some degree with the previous one gives a panorama close to reality as...

2 January, 2026

Lomo 35KP 140mm F1.8 projector lens adapted to Pentax 67

By Chi Zhang

In the everlasting quest for large apertures on 67 format, the path to glory leads towards projector lenses. Among these, the Soviet Lomo 35KP 140mm F1.8 movie projector lens st...

14 December, 2025

Vintage Glass Plates – From Test to Print

By Tristan Colgate-McFarlane

While an analogue photography habit can help us avoid the relentless tide of technological progress, it would be delusional to suggest it helps us (or me at least), avoid Gear A...

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...

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