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10 April, 2026

Comparing Three Great Medium Format Cameras

By Jeffery Luhn

10 April, 2026

/ Pentax 645N, Rolleicord, Zeiss ikon 6x9, /

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19 May, 2023

Ilford Advocate Lens – Bodge Mounted By The Geniuses at WYC

By Hamish Gill

Ages ago, the guys at West Yorkshire Cameras posted a picture of a lens they "cobbled" together on Instagram. Apparently, behind the scenes they had joked about the fact that I ...

19 May, 2023

Durst Automatica – Overcoming Scale Focus Fears with an Italian Beauty

By Ibraar Hussain

My photographic journey took a new route recently. I had been scared of scale focus and viewfinder cameras for years - I mean how would one shoot people and portraits with a sha...

18 May, 2023

NEWS: Introducing Reto Project’s New 35mm Colour Films – GLOW and AQUA

By Molly Kate

Reto Project announces the latest 35mm colour film stocks to hit the block, RETOCOLOR GLOW and AQUA. Featuring low contrast in both films, what differentiates these two are thei...

18 May, 2023

The Flour Battle

By Paulo Monteiro

Santa Cruz das Ribeiras is located in Pico Island, archipelago of the Azores. Every year, during Shrove Monday afternoon, a group of inhabitants, mainly young people, get togeth...

18 May, 2023

Creating Trichrome Color Photos with Ilford HP5+ – My Experiences and Mistakes

By Yuchen Wang

When I have nothing else to do, I like to browse the reddit r/analog section, and one day I suddenly saw an image with a very special color, which was amazing. At the same time,...

17 May, 2023

Don’t Sleep with Yellow Lenses, Darlin’

By Dave Powell

Photographers who remember the Petula Clark 1967 hit single that’s paraphrased in the title will also probably know what it's talking about! Regardless of how much one might lov...

17 May, 2023

Is my Old Light Meter Reliable? A Little Test and the Results

By Tony Warren

The seperate exposure meter was an indispensable accessory in the time before built-in and through the lens meters became the norm. Nowadays, when the attractions of old, all me...

16 May, 2023

NEWS: Pentax’s New Compact Fixed-Lens Film Camera Embraces Tradition with Mechanical Film Advance Lever

By Molly Kate

Pentax’s second update on its new film camera project is here! Published in the form of a Youtube video, Takeo Suzuki talks to the photography community about the project’s prog...

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