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16 September, 2025

One Shot Story – Resilience

By Tim Piscitelli

16 September, 2025

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1 July, 2024

Godox Lux Elf Review – the Cute New Retro Flash

By Sroyon

When Godox sent me the Lux Elf for review, the flash had not yet been officially launched. They asked me not to post photos or talk about it publicly, so in my Instagram story, ...

30 June, 2024

Wind from northwest – One shot Story

By Klaus Döring

Vacation on the Baltic Sea in September. The last few weeks have been very nice. A wonderful sunset glow upon arrival. In the morning wind from northwest. On the beach with my c...

30 June, 2024

Rollei A110 – Bringing It Back From The Dead

By Neal Wellons

I perked up listening to a recent podcast when one of the hosts mentioned he had owned 5 Rollei A110 cameras and none of them worked. I realized that I might have already solve...

29 June, 2024

One camera, One Lens – Testing the Photo Adage in Japan

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

Photography is chock full of sayings, adages, call them what you will. F8 and be there. Sunny 16. Most are grounded in some reality. But the one that I think has some applicatio...

28 June, 2024

Omnar/Skyllaney Converted Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 40mm f/1.4 – Mini Review

By Hamish Gill

Working with Chris and Vita Andreyo to setup Omnar lenses has been one of the most enjoyable projects I have been a part of in my working life. It has been really exciting bring...

28 June, 2024

5 Frames with an Olympus OM-1N

By acbueno

I love shooting with cameras in the 35mm format, and the Olympus OM1 is undoubtedly my favorite. Its compact size and ergonomic design appeal to me immensely, providing a seamle...

28 June, 2024

Olympus 35SP – A 5 Frame Mini-Review

By Edward Stitt

I have always liked cameras. About 18 months after getting back into shooting film cameras, I have found that I keep returning to the Olympus 35SP. After reading an excellent ar...

27 June, 2024

My First use of Caffenol

By Roger

There is lots of advice on this on the web but here is some more, in case it is helpful to anyone. I recently started to use film again and, as it was inexpensive, invested in a...

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