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8 October, 2025

Canon 50mm 1.2 LTM First Impressions – Wading Through The Fog

By Christopher Gio Sarsono

Early this year I had the chance to buy a Canon P for cheap. I had been searching for a fully mechanical rangefinder for a while and this camera popped up during a trip to Japan...

7 October, 2025

Up-Tech – A Short Roll of Questionable Photography

By Nicholas Johnson

The Up-Tech is a camera. Mine has a face drawn on it, and I bought it after a very mild evening at a local brewery. I’ve decided to write a post about it. A 5 US$ dollar camera...

7 October, 2025

5 frames in France with a Contax RX

By Alastair Bell

I have a problem. I love cameras. Especially older film cameras. It’s that tactile feeling of holding it and finding all the controls under my fingertips. A couple of year...

Holding the HP iPaq with camera attachment

7 October, 2025

HP PhotoSmart Mobile Camera review – an SD card camera for Windows PDAs

By Charlotte

In the age of smartphones, the idea of not having a camera in your pocket at all times may seem foreign. But even as far as twenty years ago, there were developments to try and ...

Front view of a Minolta Talkman camera surrounded by 35mm film cassettes

6 October, 2025

5 Frames with a Trichroming Minolta AF-S Talkman

By Benjamin Chan

If you read my earlier piece about the Minolta AF-S V&D, also known as “The Talker”, then you’ll know it checks a lot of boxes for what I want from a compact point-and...

6 October, 2025

Papershoot – A “Real” Photographer’s Review

By Hamish Gill

As a “real” photographer – a pro even; certainly an expert – I feel like the Papershoot is not really targeted at me. It’s a microscopically small sensor, point and ...

5 October, 2025

Make Sense (or: Meaning is in the Eye of the Beholder)

By Andrea Monti

I am a big fan of Jim Hall. A god of the Jazz Olympus, he was an amazing guitar player and played (i.e. lived) according to a simple but effective maxim: make musical sense. He ...

5 October, 2025

A Phone camera vs 15 year old point-and-shoot

By Daimon Tilley

I am really enjoying getting back into film photography, and contributing, in a small way, to this site. But I also enjoy digital, for me the two are complimentary. This summer ...

Cristian Ionescu on Assignment of Exposures using Ansel Adams’ Zone System
Hello Ibraar! Many thanks you kind words. "And I almost always make sure there is enough tonal variation in a…
Omar Tibi on 5 Frames with Expired Soviet Svema ISO 25 at Cinevilla, Tukums, Latvia
You're welcome! ORWO is lovely, if you liked shooting this I'm sure you will enjoy it too. I'm a huge…
Cristian Ionescu on Assignment of Exposures using Ansel Adams’ Zone System
Hello Geoff! Thanks for the kind words! Indeed digital has changed the game. I am not a fine art photographer…

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