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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 ...

3 October, 2025

“Half Framing” Practically Any Film Camera (Part 1 of 2)

By Dave Powell

I love creativity of all kinds. But it has taken me down some strange rabbit holes (like here, here, here and here). This article is another. I hope you find it interesting and ...

29 September, 2025

Twin Lens Reflex – My Experiences and Thoughts on this Camera Type – Show and Tell

By Tony Warren

History, design and examples from a number of TLR cameras.

14 September, 2025

My DIY Analog Journey

By Adrien Grelet

I’m Adrien, a french DIY and technical stuff enthusiast. For many years (since I’m 3, I guess), I have really liked to experiment with new things, undertaking a lot ...

17 August, 2025

It’s Time for the Soft-Focus Revival!

By mark stein

Try it! The most salient learning of my soft-focus foray was a greater awareness for light! With hindsight, that alone was worth it. But I enjoyed so much more in my journey fro...

6 August, 2025

Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6 – Adapting a digital medium format lens to film

By Simon Foale

A few years ago the managers of the university I work for decided that the Creative Arts department, which taught a number of photography subjects, was insufficiently profitable...

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