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11 November, 2025

Nikonos IV-a for Documentary Photography

By Simon King

11 November, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, Nikonos IV-A, Underwater Camera, /

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3 July, 2023

TTArtisan Tilt 50mm 1.4 Lens Review

By Hamish Gill

The TTArtisan Tilt 50mm 1.4 is a full frame 50mm lens with a f/1.4 maximum aperture and a 90 degree rotating tilt feature that seems to often be available new for around £200. T...

2 July, 2023

Inspiring a Project Today by Referencing Images from the Past

By John Pemberton

I was doomscrolling in the digital wasteland of 2023 Twitter and saw a photographer talking about putting together his very first project. He was lamenting how to begin. Most o...

1 July, 2023

5 Frames with Kodak Retina Ia crossing the wild Carpathians

By Julian Tanase

Winter of 2005 in Romania. Very cold, but not much snow, in fact less than expected. I was travelling on business, to some destination in the heart of Transylvania, W. of Romani...

30 June, 2023

Olympus Chrome Six – An Idiot’s Guide / A Trip to Helsinki

By Mike Brooks

What kind of idiot would go on a once in a lifetime trip, to a place they have never been, and take a camera they have never used? Well, me I guess. So this is the story of lear...

29 June, 2023

5 Frames With Zenit-E On Ilford HP5

By Andrew Hutchinson

I have been allured by the grain & grit that is captured by the Soviet Union made brick since I first laid my eyes upon the weapon on the sunny summer day in the Croatian fr...

29 June, 2023

Ilford Ortho Plus – A good match for a Box Tengor 56/2.

By Tony Warren

A slightly outdated 120 roll of Ilford’s orthochromatic film left over from an earlier exercise seemed a good match for my recently purchased Zeiss Box Tengor. The Massive Devel...

28 June, 2023

NEWS: TTArtisan Releases LTM Mount Version of Compact 28mm F5.6 Lens

By Molly Kate

TTArtisan has created an LTM mount version of their Leica Summaron 28MM f5.6 lookalike M-mount lens. Their m-mount version which came out in 2021 was received well considering i...

28 June, 2023

The Pop Up Herb Stall – A One Shot Story

By Peter Roberts

London's Chinatown probably needs no introduction, it must be on the to do list of every tourist. But go there in the morning, as early as possible, and it presents a different ...

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