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18 May, 2025

Shooting Italian 5 birilli

By Andrea Monti

18 May, 2025

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9 June, 2023

A Cautionary Tale about Scanning Negs with a Digital Camera

By Marco Andrés

While there is much interest in scanning with a digital camera, there are other ways of scanning negatives: using a lab or home-scanning with a dedicated scanner. Scanning with ...

9 June, 2023

Canonet QL17 GIII – This camera almost has it all

By Simon Cygielski

For years, I’ve been searching for a fast, easy to carry, inconspicuous film camera to take with me wherever I go. I’ve gone through a number of the usual suspects, including th...

8 June, 2023

5 Frames around Osaka Castle with a Minolta XD5 and Fujicolor 100

By shawn granton

On March 29th of this year, Fujifilm posted a notice that they would suspend shipments of 35mm and 120 color film, both negative and slide, to its Japanese customers. As someone...

8 June, 2023

5 Frames with Rollei Ortho 25 Plus

By Eric

I honestly do not know what possessed me to buy this film. While I shoot a number of film speeds my usual go to is 400. Other less often but I usually stay between 100 and 800. ...

7 June, 2023

Plainclothes Angels (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

In my personal urban dictionary, a “plainclothes angel” is someone whose life crosses yours usually once, and for a short time. But they still have an out-sized impact on your f...

7 June, 2023

3 Days in “Our Town” with a Retina IIa, T-Max 100, Wratten 23A and Caffenol

By Dave Powell

In October 2022, Kate and I decided to spend a long Columbus Day weekend in Peterborough, New Hampshire. There, for more than 25 years, Monadnock Art has organized free tours of...

6 June, 2023

5 Frames with a Friendly Deer

By Joseph Irvin

Too friendly, if I'm honest. But this is why I carry a camera with me nearly everywhere I go. It's usually something like a Nikon F2 loaded with Tri-X (rated at 1600), with my 3...

6 June, 2023

5 Frames with the Polaroid Now on i-Type Color Film

By Erin O'Leary

There's something special about instant photography - the ability to capture a moment in time and hold it in your hands in an instant. And when it comes to instant cameras, few ...

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