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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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12 July, 2025

A Birthday Weekend in Exeter, New Hampshire

By Dave Powell

For my birthday in 2024, Kate surprised me with a long desired pilgrimage to Exeter, New Hampshire. We went to see the iconic work of a great American architect (who wasn’t Fran...

11 July, 2025

Jumping from the Canopy – One Shot Story

By Kohtli

Hidden deep on Mount Tsurugi on Shikoku Island, is the forest adventure park. It involves moving through obstacles while attached to a harness suspended roughly 30-40 feet above...

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11 July, 2025

Leica Elmarit-M 90mm f2.8 and a History Photo Walk

By Geoff Chaplin

The featured image shows the lens on my Sony A7Riii body. Technical details about the lens can be found here, and Hamish Gill wrote about it here. The lens followed the Tele-Elm...

Raglan Castle

10 July, 2025

5 (plus one or three) Frames of Raglan Castle – A Return to Velvia with the Best Camera Ever Made.

By Richard Becker

The ruins of Raglan Castle dominate the landscape mid-way between Abergavenny and Monmouth in South Wales and will be familiar to anyone travelling the A40 between the towns. Th...

10 July, 2025

Tokyo Street Photography – A One Shot Story

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

First, an admission: I don’t get the term “street photography.” I’ve always assumed that’s what we did when we just called it photography. But I realize this is probably a gene...

9 July, 2025

One roll of film, two cameras

By Roger

Like my last post this story begins with a purchase at a flea fair. I already had one Zeiss nettar, but was tempted by seeing what seemed a more modern one that took 6×6 pi...

9 July, 2025

Konica Autorex – Shooting full and half frames on the same roll of film

By Stuart Jenkins

Here we have the Konica Autorex; the only 35mm SLR that can switch mid-roll between full-frame and half-frame. It’s quite rare (only a handful in the UK) and I was able to...

8 July, 2025

Introducing Analog Photography Assistant – a full featured film photographers app

By Logan Mortimer

The Fuji GW690iii was my first camera that had no electronics. It has produced some of my favourite photographs, but fundamentally changed the way I meter scenes for light. Give...

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