As both a physician and an enthusiastic amateur photographer, my visit in May 2025 to the training hall of the mountain rescue service in Bad Tölz/Gaißach, about 50 km south of ...
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28 October, 2025
My Introduction to Fillm Photography
My introduction into photography began many years ago around 2015 or 2016 with a Sony digital a5000. A small compact APS-C camera I purchased from Best Buy for a whopping $400! ...
28 October, 2025
There’s more to the garden than the BBQ – A tale of four cameras and a deadly ladder.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my BBQ. In the summer it smokes and sizzles with all kinds of marinated goodies getting a good char. But a garden needs cheer as well, and that ...
27 October, 2025
My Favorite Photo of 2025?
As I write these words it is mid-September, with almost a third of 2025 yet to go, yet I’m nonetheless fairly certain that the image above will turn out to be my favorite ...
If someone handed you two high end cameras — a rangefinder and an SLR — which would you pick up first? Which would you end up sticking with as your ‘when in...
27 October, 2025
Viltrox 85mm 1.8 STM II (Nikon Z Mount) Review
I don’t review modern autofocus lenses all that often, but recently – for reasons I will come to in a moment – I have begun to find them increasingly interesting. Ac...
26 October, 2025
Mamiya-6 Automat – GAS ATTACK!!!
The following stand accused of leading me into temptation (but I’ve already forgiven them all, it’s really my own fault!): primary accused DANAI for writing such a compelling ar...
26 October, 2025
Coney Island with A Tele-Rolleiflex
A flattened, sandy oval pressed like a wad of gum into Brooklyn’s ample instep, Coney Island has been a draw for photographers for as long as the medium has existed. Altho...
