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21 October, 2025

My friend Volkmar – Frames of a Life

By thorsten

21 October, 2025

/ Portrait Photography, /

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Some of you may have seen the last Wes Anderson movie, The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio del Toro used a huge fountain pen from Montblanc in it. My friend Volkmar Bendig, an actor himself, had one of those. He got it from a photographer who died in a...

21 October, 2025

5 Frames with a Canon EOS 5000, 50mm f/1.8, and Kepler 800

By Yousuf Sarfaraz

21 October, 2025

/ Canon EOS 5000, Kodak Vision3 500T, Zhenwei Kepler 800, /

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I’ve shot a variety of films before, both color and black and white, from Portra to HP5, but I had never experimented with motion picture stock like Kodak Vision3 500T. I had seen photos online and read about it, but never tested it myself. In Jul...

21 October, 2025

A Few Frames with a Canon P and how I found myself on 35mmc

By Walter Reumkens

21 October, 2025

/ Canon P, Kodak Film, Kodak UltraMax 400, /

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I have been a member of FLICKR for many years and only show my photos there. I joined when I retired and had more time for my hobby. At that time I expected to meet many like-minded people, nice people who knew the basics of photography, wanted to...

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4 June, 2022

5 Frames at Catawba Falls with a Mamiya C3 and HP5+ – by N.S. Bucher

By Nate Bucher

I have been shooting 35mm cameras for about a decade and mostly shoot black and white. My main camera for the duration has been a Pentax K1000 and various Pentax Lenses. The pan...

3 June, 2022

Grocery Store Development – Part 2: Developing with Caffenol (and Salt) – By Josh Vickers

By Josh Vickers

After my success with reversal processing, I wanted to try my hand at making a homemade developer. Caffenol was the obvious next step, and I, being a temperamental machine fuele...

2 June, 2022

5 Frames of Photographic Comfort Food with Film Washi S and a Voigtlander 15mm Lens – By Sonny Rosenberg

By sonny rosenberg

Recently, I had to go undergo some surgery which resulted in me taking a forced hiatus from photography and from posting on my own little blog, The Daily Lumenbox. As a reader o...

1 June, 2022

How I came to shoot Nikon cameras – By Hasse Gustafsson

By Hans Gustafsson

Actually, it might as well have been Minoltas. My best friends older brother had a Minolta X-700 that instilled a great deal of envy in me. The year was 1982 and I was at the ti...

31 May, 2022

Trespassing with a Hasselblad H2 – By Brian Cox

By brian m cox

I’ve lived in a small town in central North Carolina my entire life and driven by this house hundreds of times without ever noticing it. It sits along the edge of a forest on a ...

30 May, 2022

How Many Cameras to Take on Holiday? – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Well, is this a first-world problem or what! Not only are we talking about going on vacation, but also about the "problem" of choosing between multiple cameras for said vacation...

29 May, 2022

The Healing Process of Getting Back into Photography after 15 Years – By Grégoire MBV

By Gregoire MBV

My name is Greg, I live in France, I'm 37, I run a wineshop, but we're not here to discuss about all that. We're here because 15 years ago, more or less, I quit photography, and...

28 May, 2022

5 Frames Pedalling to York with a Voigtlander Vito II – Sam Knight

By Sam Knight

Travelling by bicycle has long been something I enjoy. Why though had I decided on a bicycle trip to York? A long time cycling friend of mine moved to Edinburgh a few years ago ...

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