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30 June, 2025

Fujifilm X100VI – One Camera and 1½ Lenses for Travel – with a Pocket of Light

By Paul Chance

30 June, 2025

/ Compact Digital, Fuji Digital, Fujifilm X100VI, /

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16 July, 2023

Local Heritage Recycled, Reused, Repurposed

By Julian Tanase

I recently visited a small town in Eastern Europe, in the Republic of Moldova. A small country, somewhere on a sliver of land between the Prut and the Dniester rivers, a country...

15 July, 2023

5 Frames in the Grand Canyon with an Nikon FE, T-Max 400, and an Orange Filter

By Sam Forrest

I consider myself pretty lucky to live within a 4-hour drive of one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the world. As an avid backpacker and photographer, it troubled me when I real...

14 July, 2023

Kodak DC3200 – Kodak’s Digital Automatic Box Camera

By Scott Gitlin

Join me on my trip in the Way-Back Machine to the year 2000. I am wandering through the aisles of a big-box retailer and naturally gravitate to the camera department. There I se...

13 July, 2023

NEWS: Negative Supply Upgrades Basic Film Carrier 35 MK2 with Pro-Level Elements

By Molly Kate

Negative Supply has something new for home DSLR scanners, the Basic Film Carrier 35 MK2. This upgraded film carrier brings several elements from its pro-level system into the co...

13 July, 2023

Pentax LX – Shooting My Wife’s Camera

By Geoff Chaplin

The camera had been lying around in a cupboard for a long long time so, since it wasn’t being used, I sold it. “You gave me that camera as an engagement present!!!” said my wife...

13 July, 2023

A Whole Month/Whole Roll – The Olympus 35RC and Ilford HP5+

By Anders Lewis

There’s something magical about the first roll developed in a new camera. The cathartic release of weeks (in this case, a month) of anxiety is almost unmatched (I don’t have kid...

12 July, 2023

The “Blue Hour” from On High (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

This article’s title is, I think, appropriate. I shot the photo as our Lufthansa Airbus 340 winged its way from Boston to Italy (via Frankfurt) last May. Jetting east like that ...

12 July, 2023

The End of the Dream – Installing dystopian billboards throughout California

By Thomas Broening

The End of the Dream is a series of photographic installations portraying the three challenges endangering California’s existence: drought, wildfire, and housing. I instal...

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