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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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25 August, 2025

Fish-eye-Takumar 17mm – Takumars in a Digital Age #1

By David Mackay

Last Christmas my father-in-law gifted an old Spotmatic. I was taken aback as it had belonged to his father and so I knew how much it meant to him to pass it along. While the ca...

25 August, 2025

Minolta XG9 review

By Bob Janes

There was a point in the late 70s when Minolta did something mildly uncharacteristic. They had always produced interesting cameras with cutting-edge features, but occasionally t...

double exposure

24 August, 2025

A Lucky Roll – An Accidentally Double-Exposed Roll

By Alexandre Kreisman

If, like me you are shooting film and shooting film at an event, well as you might know, sometimes you make mistakes. I recently bought a camera, a SLR and added a motor drive o...

24 August, 2025

Hanoi’s Beer Street with a Broken Ricoh GR1v

By Ali MC

Beer Street, Hanoi. As the name suggests, yes – you can drink beer here. Many beers, in fact, a feat I had evidently achieved this particular evening. Along with inhaling nitrou...

Founders of Ausgeknipst. Anto & Vladi.

23 August, 2025

Breathing New Life into Old Cameras – The Ausgeknipst Story

By Vladislav Shenker

If you’re like me and you love shooting film (or at least you love film cameras), you probably know this feeling: you find an old film camera while strolling through your ...

23 August, 2025

Nikon Mini AF600 – Shooting with a Lite Touch

By Art Meripol

These days I use my little Fuji X100V for a ‘walking around’ camera. I like my iPhone camera just fine but usually want something a little ‘better’ than the phone. If I carry th...

22 August, 2025

The Shape of Loneliness – One Shot Story

By Eagle Omomuro

Taken in Boston, January 2011 with the Minolta 500mm f/8 reflex on my Alpha 9. At this focal length, even ordinary things become intriguing. It’s a perspective I don’t have with...

22 August, 2025

Ricoh GX200 – the GR Digital Zoom

By Javier Martínez Delgue

The Ricoh GX200 is a camera that, despite not having been officially part of the GR family, was conceptualized and designed as if it were. In 2007, Ricoh took the essence of its...

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