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7 November, 2025

Your photo of the year 2025 (and my photo of the year 2025)

By Hamish Gill

7 November, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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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 drones, ...

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...

24 September, 2024

NEWS: Ilford Photo Celebrating 145 years History with Limited Edition Retro Packaging

By Hamish Gill

Running a branding company as I do, I find this sort of thing very cool. Ilford photo will be selling some of their film range in these limited edition 1950s inspired boxes. In ...

24 September, 2024

Ilford FP4 Type 517 Cine Film Review

By Simon King

Long story short, this is a high quality film at a fantastic price. Many aspects of analogue photography can feel like a compromise, from actual decisions while photographing to...

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