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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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26 February, 2022

The American Southwest – 3 Days, 3 Rolls of Film Part 1 – The Painted Desert Inn – By John Pemberton

By John Pemberton

I got out of the car and the sun was shining. Of course it was. I had spent the previous 5 hours hiking the trails under a thick veil of clouds that smothered any source of co...

25 February, 2022

The Honeymooners – October 1983 – By William Brown

By Bill Brown

Welcome to my time-travelogue. The event will be my honeymoon with my beautiful bride Marie. Now, this isn’t your everyday honeymoon story but our travelogue documenting our tri...

24 February, 2022

Sabatier Effect with a B&W Negative and Color RA4 Process – by Séverine Chauveau

By Séverine Chauveau

I am a photographer based in Reunion Island (a French territory in the Indian Ocean), and for a few years now, my practice has been focused on experimental photography. I really...

23 February, 2022

5 Frames with Expired Kodak Plus X and my Favorite Classic Manual Cameras – By Zheng Li

By Zheng Li

Recently I acquired some expired B&W film. I have heard about this film before, but never tried. It was the Kodak Plus-X in 4x5 sheets, which expired in 1981. Plus-x was an ISO ...

22 February, 2022

The Leica for a Year Project – By Patrick Medd

By Patrick Medd

The Venn diagram describing the readership of 35mmc and of Mike Johnston’s blog ‘The Online Photographer’, may not have a huge amount of overlap—on the other hand it may, I don’...

21 February, 2022

Zeiss Ikoflex III (1939) – Atoning For GAS By Doing A History Project – By Stefan Wilde

By Stefan Wilde

When I first bought and tried a Rolleiflex I fell in love with TLRs. They are by no means perfect, but very quirky and eye-catching. I love that. Yes I am that kind of person. I...

20 February, 2022

Traces – A Photography Project – By Stefan Aune

By Stefan Aune

The inspiration for this project came from a photographer named Michael Somoroff, who made a project called “Absence of Subject“. He took the legendary photographer August Sande...

19 February, 2022

5 Frames Of A Wedding On Lomochrome Purple – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

I was so fortunate to be in a position to try out some unusual film stocks at my Best Friends wedding. They had their professional photographer, my Husband was the Best Man and ...

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