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2 November, 2025

My (Brief) Life as a Documentary Photographer

By Jeremy Rata

2 November, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, Reflecting on the past, /

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30 July, 2025

Two Cold Shoes for an M3

By Leon Winnert

This is a short piece that describes how I designed and made a gadget to solve a need to attach and simultaneously use two cold shoes on a Leica M3 when only one exists. And how...

30 July, 2025

Voigtlander 28mm f2.8 Aspherical SL II-S Color-Skopar – Golden egg cups, surrealism and a new lens for an old film camera

By Simon Bohrsmann

This is a story about how I ended up knee deep in sea water on the coast of Sydney, Australia, trying to focus on a golden egg cup. It is a story about an experience with a new ...

29 July, 2025

5 Frames of New York City, 1987

By thorsten

Photography can be a time machine. 38 years ago I travelled the first time to New York, classic style with a Pan Am jumbo. With me came two F3s, a 24/2.8 and a 105/2.5, plus 10 ...

29 July, 2025

Eid Al Adha in East London on Ilford and Fomapan 35mm Films, June 2025

By Simon King

I didn’t set out to document Islamic communities and cultures as its own specific story initially, but the amount of hate filled comments, death threats, and overall negat...

28 July, 2025

Analogue (and analogue inspired) Newsletter August 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

Welcome to the August Analogue (and analogue inspired) News and Tittle-Tattle. July wanes into August and once that flies past and the children are back to School it’ll be...

28 July, 2025

SmartConvert – Inverting negatives smartly

By Marco Andrés

There are many methods to scan and convert film negatives into positives. One common method is to scan into a raw file with a scanner or, more commonly, a digital camera. The pr...

28 July, 2025

Zeiss Ikon S 310 – The Last Contessa – Urban shooting in Norwich London and Cambridge in Black and White

By Ibraar Hussain

I bought myself this Zeiss Ikon S 310 recently and have been hooked on it, it’s a little gem. I bought it on a knee jerk; after using my Balda CA 35 and with Hamish kindly...

27 July, 2025

‘One Third Keepers’ with Kentmere Pan 200 and a Konica AutoReflex T3

By Bob Janes

In the relatively early days of digital I was involved in online discussions about whether the fact that our short-to-shot cost with digital cameras was tempting us to ‘spray an...

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Stefan Wilde on Planar. Ektar. Fotograflar. Istanbul… In 5 Frames
Hi Omar, Capturing the essence of a city with just five frames is a fantastic challenge! I really like your…
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Great stuff, thanks for sharing. I really like both mountain photography and travel writing of the exploration/mountaineer sort, I've a…
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Thanks for the fascinating and very interesting story I've never used one of these (nor any Leica camera) before, for…

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