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30 October, 2025

Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)

By John Bennett

30 October, 2025

/ Camera History, Leica III, Nikkor-s 5cm 1.4, /

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After our recent road trip, which included a night at the Hotel Finlen in Butte, Montana, and a chance to photograph the window where Robert Frank made one of the 83 images included in his landmark book, The Americans, I became mildly obsessed wit...

30 October, 2025

Printing Live: What I Learned from Sharing the Darkroom in Real Time

By Tom Warland

30 October, 2025

/ Darkroom Printing, /

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Ever since I first started photography, I’ve loved the darkroom. There have been times when I’ve drifted away from it – drawn in by the convenience of digital editing, whether from negatives or digital files – but I always find myself ...

30 October, 2025

5 Frames, some with the Bridge Turned into Shadow and Shape.

By Danilo Leonardi

30 October, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, Street & Urban Photography, /

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It sometimes seems as though every sunset has already been photographed. Most often, the image is of a landscape in the “golden hour,” a favourite of postcard pictures. Epic skies are often part of the same cliché, reflecting a very conventional “...

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29 August, 2025

‘One Third Keepers’ with a Minolta Dynax 7 and Kentmere Pan 400 exposed at ISO 200

By Bob Janes

The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...

29 August, 2025

Contax T – The OG one The Kardashians should’ve had

By Ibraar Hussain

The Contax T, the one that started off which is now a cult like series of high end electronic Compact Cameras. I had hitherto owned and photographed with the other T series came...

28 August, 2025

5 Frames with a Praktica L – Nothing more than necessary

By Matt Reverzani

I’m all about purity of form and function, and I love a good brutalist design aesthetic. So when I discovered that there was a whole line of cheap and ugly-beautiful SLRs ...

28 August, 2025

Brownie 2A – a final follow up.

By Tony Warren

Browenie 2A and mask to match 120 film width.

A mamiya C330 F and a Nikon FM with a Phoenix box and a roll of Phoenix 120

27 August, 2025

Harmon Phoenix – a semi-begrudging love note with a farewell tear goodbye.

By Alastair Holland

As I imagine many of you already know, in late 2023, Harman released a new colour film, which was the first colour film that they have produced; formerly only making black and w...

27 August, 2025

Pentax Espio 140 – The Second Best Zoom Compact Camera I’ve Ever Had

By Keith Drysdale

Buying “Crap Cameras” A year ago I started buying plastic zoom compacts from the 80s and 90s to make a series of Youtube videos entitled “Crap Cameras”. ...

26 August, 2025

Inside a Master Luthier’s Workshop

By Andrea Monti

Craftsmanship is fascinating. It’s almost magical how we can see things in our head and make them happen. This is true for every bit of wisdom that humans have come up wit...

26 August, 2025

In Search of Darkness and Light: Black & White Film Stocks, Part 5 – The Conclusion

By Scott Ferguson

This all started as a friendly conversation about looking for a ‘go to’ black & white film choice, partly because I wanted to stock up before the US tariffs kick...

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