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13 October, 2025

Mr. Ding Pactcron 35mm f/1.8 Review

By vincentbihler

13 October, 2025

/ 35mm Lens, Mr. Ding Pactcron 35mm, Rangefinder Lens, Wide-Angle Lens, /

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15 December, 2019

Zeiss Ikon Contina III – One Roll Mini Review – by Charles Higham

By Charles Higham

I’ve had this Zeiss Ikon Contina III for about 8 years and used it just once. I put a roll of expired colour film through it shortly after acquiring it, had it developed and, af...

14 December, 2019

Leica Minilux Death by E02 / 5 Frames with a Beautiful Brick – By Bill Thoo

By Bill Thoo

I have owned a Leica Minilux for more than 20 years. The truth, though, is that I am not a compact camera kind of guy. The Minilux was the antithesis of my then shooting philoso...

13 December, 2019

A Beginner’s Exploration of Documentary Photography – By Hugo Morgan

By hugomorgan

After a summer spent overexposing bulk bought colour negative film on trips to the beach and praying that the airport scanners weren’t going to fry my film on the way home, I de...

12 December, 2019

Agricultural Landscapes – by Christian Schroeder

By Christian Schroeder

We all should leave our comfort zone, I read this advice all the time. But why? Why not doing the exact opposite, seeking our comfort as often as possible? Isn’t that good to fe...

11 December, 2019

Ektachrome E100 in 120 & 4×5 imminently available!

By Hamish Gill

Ok, ok, I'm sure you've heard already. I am definitely behind the curve on this particular news release! It is an exciting chunk of news though, so just in case any of you out t...

11 December, 2019

Why I Think You Should Print Your Black & White Negs In Your Own Darkroom – By Recky Reck

By Recky

It is certainly no exaggeration to say that film photography is coming back with a vengeance. Even the most die-hard celluloid sniffers had shelved or sold their analogue gear b...

10 December, 2019

A path from, and back to, a Yashica 40mm f/1.7 lens – by Anders Bjørn Jensen

By laminatministeren

I have been an amateur photographer since I was 13 years old (in 1982) when my first camera was a now long-since-bricked Yashica Electro 35 GX. As dead as it was though, my path...

9 December, 2019

7Artisans 75mm f/1.25 Review – a confusion of “want” over “need”

By Hamish Gill

I thought it might be interesting to follow up my post about my “need” for Zeiss ZM lenses in my life with a post about a lens I don’t “need”, but do “want” - at least for the t...

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