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11 July, 2025

Jumping from the Canopy – One Shot Story

By Kohtli

11 July, 2025

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14 May, 2024

A One Shot Story from New Zealand’s South Island.

By Tony Warren

Our recent first trip away post-covid seemed the perfect opportunity to take out my home made 6×12, 6 on 120 panoramic for the first time since I had added a focussing capa...

14 May, 2024

5 Frames inspired by Georges de la Tour

By Geoff Chaplin

It was the 13th of March. In my inbox was the daily news in French email and it began by saying on that day in 1593 the painter Georges de la Tour was born, and he became famous...

13 May, 2024

TTArtisan 27mm f/2.8 AF Fuji X mount (a manual lens shooters) review

By Ben Jennings

This is a review of the TTArtisan 27mm f/2.8 AF in Fuji X Mount. For a long time now I have been a manual only lens user. I spent years shooting Leica film cameras almost exclus...

12 May, 2024

Visiting an old ‘friend’ – Lisbon

By Geoff Chaplin

A generation ago Lisbon seemed magical, the light on the crumbling buildings, the ubiquitous graffiti, the former glory of the architecture and private courtyards. As time went ...

11 May, 2024

Recreating Historic Images

By Art Meripol

Back in 2016 a group of tourism professionals, historians, marketing pros and the US National Park Service began to work towards creating a U.S. Civil Rights Trail with the goal...

10 May, 2024

Olympus Promaster Infinity TWIN Review – It’s got the POWER!

By Cory A. Jones

Welp, one good thing about having been an active camera collector for over fifteen years now is that if I decide to start reviewing cameras, I’ve got quite a few candidates at h...

9 May, 2024

Olympus XA4 has a day out in Scarborough

By Mark Ellerby

I have previously had an XA, an XA2 and an XA3, all well used and enjoyed, and which all eventually broke in their own special ways. The XA4 is the latest in the series and I al...

9 May, 2024

5 Frames with a Nikon D800 and the Voigtlander f1.4 58mm Nokton

By john mcmanus

A couple of years ago, when I came into some spare cash and decided to buy a new camera, I found myself faced with the problem of narrowing down my choices from the wide array o...

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