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27 September, 2024

5 Macro Frames with a Canon EOS 30 & MP-E 65mm

By Matthew Becker

I do macro photography. I have an Canon MP-E 65mm EF 1-5x macro lens. I have a Canon EOS 30 film camera with EF mount. There was only one way this was going to end. I loaded up ...

27 September, 2024

Viltrox 28mm f/4.5 Pancake Lens Review and Indigogo Launch

By Hamish Gill

This is the Viltrox 28mm f/4.5 Pancake Lens, it is soon to be launched on Indigogo, but I’ve been playing with the copy I have here for the last week or so. I am, I admit...

26 September, 2024

5 Frames with Pentacon F and Agfa APX 100

By Jens

The Pentacon F camera was produced by the East German company VEB Pentacon Zeiss Ikon between September 1956 and June 1961 in Dresden. I lived in Dresden for two years in the 20...

26 September, 2024

A creative approach to zone focusing with superfast manual lenses and mirrorless cameras in street photography

By Andrea Monti

Manual lenses on mirrorless cameras are often a match made in heaven: (once) cheap, high-quality lenses can finally be brought back from the grave and used on modern cameras. Ho...

25 September, 2024

5 frames with a Canon R6 Mk II and its RF 50/1,2 L USM

By Andrea Monti

I was recently given a Canon R6 Mk II and a set of lenses, including the RF 50/1.2, to test them in a specific environment, so to familiarise myself with the kit I spent a few h...

25 September, 2024

4×5 reborn, or “What are those things?”

By Jeffery Luhn

For perspective, let’s rewind our brains. In a long-forgotten time, on a planet called Earth, there were no self-driving cars, no 20MP cell phone cameras, no affordable d...

24 September, 2024

NEWS: Intrepid Launch I-0 Shutter and 150mm f6.3 Lens on Kickstarter

By Hamish Gill

Intrepid have been working on developing and releasing a new lens and novel electronic shutter for large format cameras, and have today launched the project on kickstarter here....

24 September, 2024

How to shoot Kodak Vision Color Print (2383) in colors

By Bruno Silva

Many people used shoot analog photography may have already come across an ISO 12 violet/blue film that stores usually offer. This film, which can also be developed with chemical...

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