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A fast-foot restaurant under the JR Yamanote line tracks in Tokyo, Japan.

9 September, 2025

Tokyo At Night – A One-Shot Story

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

9 September, 2025

/ travel photography, /

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Photo of a couple leaving a Boston train station.

1 August, 2025

Be Careful with Generative AI! (One Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

On July 17, 2025, more than 1,500 anti-Trump “Make Good Trouble” protests (totaling perhaps 56,000 people) occurred across the U.S. Of these, nearly 100 groups gathered in Massa...

1 August, 2025

The mystery of the car in the attic – a one shot story

By Philip

We have all heard of barn finds – abandoned cars, tractors, sometimes even whole classic car-collections that were left to collect dust and grime in barns and garages unti...

1 August, 2025

Box Brownie model 2A.

By Tony Warren

The Kodak Box Brownie 2A and adapting it for 120 film.

A box of Kodak Tri-X 400 120 5 pack photographed by Ted Smith Photography for his online store https://shop.tedsmithphotography.co.uk

31 July, 2025

My Decision to become a New UK Film Stockist and Retailer

By TED SMITH

I have been a long time photographer who uses film. More recently, I’ve relied on Kodak Tri-X to create my dark, high-contrast portraits in the studio, sometimes at short notice...

31 July, 2025

Toileum filter set

By Geoff Chaplin

Toileum – not a name I had come across before. I was looking on Amazon for a yellow filter, having left mine behind in Europe thinking I had a spare set back in Japan but I was ...

Bronica RF645 & (sadly empty) Aerochrome canisters.

31 July, 2025

Kodak Aerochrome – And the Economics of Shooting this Unusual Film Stock

By Nick Orloff

I fell in love, instantly, the first time I saw an Aerochrome image, all those otherworldly colours! But the skin tones aren’t impacted? Absolute film magic! For me, it was the ...

30 July, 2025

Viltrox Air 15mm f/1.7 – a new lens for APS-C

By Mike Brooks

I recently had the opportunity to test a new prime APS-C lens from Viltrox; the 15mm 1.7 Air in a Nikon Z mount. In full frame terms, that means you have something between a 20...

30 July, 2025

Two Cold Shoes for an M3

By Leon Winnert

This is a short piece that describes how I designed and made a gadget to solve a need to attach and simultaneously use two cold shoes on a Leica M3 when only one exists. And how...

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