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22 December, 2025

The Immediate, the Medium, the Media & the Median.

By Peter Ots

22 December, 2025

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In 2013, Impossible Project first teased — and then actually delivered — a miracle device: the Instant Lab, which printed onto Polaroid film. Reviews and press coverage savored the new possibility of turning digital shots into “real” prints, and i...

22 December, 2025

A Morning in Snow – My photo of the year 2025

By Curtis Heikkinen

22 December, 2025

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I can’t really pick one particular image as a favorite since I take thousands in a typical year. But I can say this is a representative example of the kind of image I am most proud of. It was a bitterly cold February morning when I hiked to the ...

Viltrox 85mm f/2 evo Nikon Zf

22 December, 2025

Viltrox 85mm f/2 Evo Review – A perfect balance of compromise for me!

By Hamish Gill

22 December, 2025

/ 85mm Lens, Mirrorless Lens, Telephoto Lens, Viltrox 85mm 2.0 evo, Viltrox Lens, /

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The Viltrox 85mm f/2 Evo is the lens I wished I was reviewing when I was writing about their 85mm 1.8. I really liked that lens, but there was something about its bokeh, its larger size and the lack of aperture control that combined to just put me...

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22 July, 2023

What my first portfolio review was like

By Joseph Irvin

In a nutshell: it was like a boxing match between me and the world, or perhaps between me and my ego. I’m unsure at this point which, because I’ve now taken so many...

21 July, 2023

Contax G2 – The Finest Camera Ever to See my Minds Eye

By Ibraar Hussain

Back in 2005 I had just started getting back into shooting Film and had bought a Minolta Dynax 5 to accompany my Konica Minolta 7D DSLR. What I then wanted was a Leica – almost ...

20 July, 2023

NEWS: Negative Supply Launches the 4×5 Light Source Pro Upgrade at Lower Price

By Molly Kate

On the heels of the recent Basic Film Carrier 35 MK2 announcement, today Negative Supply introduces a new pro-level light source called the 4×5 Light Source Pro. Intended t...

20 July, 2023

Making “Morandi’s”

By Dave Powell

One of my favorite artists is the paradoxical Giorgio Morandi. Born in Bologna, Italy in 1890 he became one of the 20th Century’s hardest artists to classify. He was exposed at ...

20 July, 2023

Panasonic LX3 – 8 Months with a 14 Year Old Point and Shoot

By Max Tiraquon

It all started when Hamish wrote this article The Rise of the Vintage Digital Camera back in March 2022. After a bit of extra research into the LX3 including this YouTube video ...

19 July, 2023

The Drum Room (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

During a brief period of unemployment more than 20 years ago, I offered my untrained photographic services to my sister-in-law Nancy. She was a leading realtor in Coldwell-Banke...

19 July, 2023

Goerz Tenax 6×9 – A Genius Design

By Geoff Chaplin

A medium format camera that weighs just 536g, only twice as thick as my smartphone and fits into my jeans back pocket! Why don’t they make more cameras like this? The above phot...

18 July, 2023

5 frames in Portland with an Olympus XA4 and Portra 400

By Gus

We travelled to Oregon for a week in May. We were greeted by a heat wave in Portland after four chilly nights camping in Bend. I brought my trusty Olympus XA4, which is easy to ...

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