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7 September, 2025

Camera scanning color negatives – some nerding and search for beauty

By Alexander Seidler

There is something fascinating and also strangely intangible to color negatives. I have been home developing C41 for 10 years and I tried lots of scanners, software and workflow...

6 September, 2025

Voigtlander Vito BL repair fail and GAS-fired workaround

By Simon Foale

Lee Miller could completely strip down her Rolleiflex ‘to the last nut and bolt’ and reassemble it in the dark ‘in some crummy billet’, according to her son, Antony Penrose. Thi...

6 September, 2025

Photographing a Mexican Cartel with a Fuji Instax Mini 12

By Henry Craver

Some background: I’m a photojournalist and a YouTuber. I covered migration and conflict for nearly six years across the Americas and Europe before starting the channel ‘Through ...

5 September, 2025

Slowly stumbling into large format

By Gary Smith

I’m beginning this article in early August 2025. I first started thinking about large format somewhere in 2024 and began watching various YouTube videos that covered the c...

5 September, 2025

Nons Instant Back – Is this a review…?

By Michael Morales

The Nons instant back has been out for a while now… so I’ll spare you the technical review, unboxing, and product photos. Instead I’d like to tell you why this product is perfec...

4 September, 2025

Solinon Optik 18mm f/5.6 ASPH Review & Super Wides are Not Just for Buildings

By Rollin Banderob

Super-wide lens’s promotional materials, reviews and forum posts seem to lean heavily to architectural and landscape images. That generally is not how I have used this cla...

4 September, 2025

Capturing Nova Scotia on Film

By David Smith

When I was 21, my parents moved from the hard-hitting, nickel-mining city of Sudbury, Ontario, to the quaint touristy town of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. With little hesitation, I ...

3 September, 2025

5 Frames in Waco, Texas with a Pentax K1000

By Tibra Ali

I spent several years after my PhD working for Baylor University in Waco, Texas; First as a post-doc and then as a lecturer at the Physics Department. Waco is a mid-sized but qu...

Russ Rosener on Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone
This was a very enjoyable read and quite a few good photos to prove each camera's worth. I owned an…
Gary Smith on 5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too
And how did you locate the Danish Photohistorical Society?
Chris Giles on 5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too
Thanks Tony I understand that contact prints were commonly used back then, so the little 4.5 x 6cm print would…

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