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9 May, 2025

5 Frames with a Large Format Camera – The Death of a Giant

By CHRISTOF RAMPITSCH

9 May, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, Foma Film, Fomapan 400, Intrepid 4x5, /

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21 December, 2024

One Shot Story: (Un)Available Coin Lockers at Shin Osaka Station

By Andrea Monti

コインロッカー, the coin-operated lockers, are fundamental to travel around Japan: this is the first lesson any first-timer to this Cou...

21 December, 2024

When The Burn Out Hits

By Larissa Almeida

When I finished university, I didn’t think burnout would hit me… how very wrong I was indeed. I was fortunate enough to attend a fantastic university, especially fo...

20 December, 2024

NEWS: Introducing the Omnar 35mm f/3.5 Pantessa FLB (YS35-35FLB)

By Hamish Gill

The Omnar 35mm f/3.5 Pantessa (short for pancake-tessar) is a limited-edition rehousing of the Carl Zeiss 35mm f/3.5 optics found in the Yashica T, T3, T4 and T5 Super cameras. ...

A blue Petri Color 35 with a few toys for added color.

20 December, 2024

Petri Color 35 – A Love Letter to a favourite camera

By Kohtli

I’d like to talk about one of my favourite cameras, the Petri Color 35. Now sure you might be thinking that this is an odd choice. And to a certain extent you’d be r...

19 December, 2024

A Night at the Opera – Plays and Opera Photography

By Andrea Monti

This is an abbreviated version of a talk I gave to a local chapter of the Italian Federation of Amateur Photographers (FIAF) on the challenges of photographing in a Teatro all&#...

19 December, 2024

5 frames with a Nikon F4S

By Alastair Griffiths

For a ‘Full Frame’ camera it is quite heavy. Certainly big, dwarfing my Ricoh KR10 from 1980. But without doubt it’s absolutely gorgeous. In a way it is alm...

18 December, 2024

Viltrox AF 35mm 1.7 Z DX – A new nifty fifty prime lens for the Nikon DX system

By Mike Brooks

If you grew up in the analogue age, chances are your first 35mm camera came with a fifty millimeter “kit” lens. These “nifty 50s” were reasonably sma...

18 December, 2024

Agfa Ambi Silette – First Roll Reflections

By Bob Israel

During a recent visit to a favorite antique store, I went to my favorite display case which were filled with cameras. One never knows what will be there and so it’s fun to...

Geoff Chaplin on An unforgettable photo of passing through the divine light in the temple-A One-shot story
Yes, wonderful shot and wonderful experience taking it. Film cameras: a good strategy is, if in doubt give it a…
Art Meripol on 5 Frames with a Large Format Camera – The Death of a Giant
Great documentation and explanation of what lens/film/developing combo was used. Funny, but unlike Thomas I like that last one quite…
Geoff Chaplin on Kentmere 200 – My First Couple of Rolls with this Brand New 200 Speed B&W Film
Maybe for those who use a lab the idea and extra cost of having the lab push 100 or pull…

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