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2 October, 2025

VIDEO: A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions

By Hamish Gill

2 October, 2025

/ Photography Philosophy, Video blog, /

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I have for a while now been meaning to find a way to restart having chats with photographers I have become friends with through the website. I loved making the occasional videos I used to make, but just never find the time or resource to make them...

2 October, 2025

A Few More Shots From An Urban Exploration Trip

By Andrea Monti

2 October, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, Street & Urban Photography, /

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Hip-hoppers and skateboarders are often seen together in many urban landscapes. Actually, these performing arts come from different US social and geographical milieus. However, in a world where different paths of life, cultures and traditions matt...

2 October, 2025

5 Frames with a Kodak Pocket A-1, Kodak’s most pointless camera

By Michael Zwicky-Ross

2 October, 2025

/ Kodak Pocket A-1, Lomography Film, Lomography Tiger 110, /

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The Kodak Pocket A-1 was a 110-format camera introduced by Kodak in 1978. In 1980 (and I cannot believe they made it for more than two years) it was renamed Kodak Brownie. It is a fixed focus, fixed exposure camera made almost entirely of plastic....

2 October, 2025

Sony RX1R and the Illusion of Alternatives

By Sien Hong

2 October, 2025

/ Camera Theory, digital camera, Sony Digital, Sony RX1R, /

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When Sony announced the RX1R III, my mind immediately leapt back to the original RX1R – a camera I had once carried, loved, and ultimately let go. The cost of the RX1R III is not one I could justify and I thought (and wrote) about how I coul...

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11 August, 2021

5 Frames with Cinestill 800T and a Canonet QL17 Giii (No Gas Stations) – by Marcus Rivera

By Marcus Rivera

Cinestill 800T is an amazing film stock that has its own unique style and character. I’m a huge fan of its cool blue/green tones, and of course those controversial red halations...

10 August, 2021

Kodak Brownie Vecta and Following in Fox Talbot’s Footsteps – by Charles Higham

By Charles Higham

I was recently reading about the industrial designer Sir Kenneth Grange, who over a long career has been involved in the creation of an impressive range of household products in...

9 August, 2021

A Calculator for Pinhole Camera Design – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Two main factors determine how a pinhole camera “sees” – that is, whether its angle of view is wide, normal or tele. The first is the sensor size (throughout this po...

8 August, 2021

A Glimpse into My Photo Hoarding – By Larissa Almeida

By Larissa Almeida

I feel as if I first should introduce myself. Hi I’m Larissa, I grew up surrounded by pictures. My mum had always loved taking photos of me and my brother, the family and our su...

7 August, 2021

Bringing Textures to Life with Ilford Delta 3200 – By Daniel Boklage

By Daniel Boklage

“There is a certain life to your photographs that extends beyond the organic matter.” Wow, does he really mean what he's saying? That's what went through my mind when I first re...

6 August, 2021

Three Rolls of Foma at the Fairground With a Minolta Autocord – By Charles Cave

By Charles Cave

Movies were not square. Cartoons were not square. Magazines were not square. Postcards were not square. Since childhood (I’m 33) I had resisted the photographic coffee-coaster r...

5 August, 2021

5 Frames with a Leica Summicron DR 50mm f/2 on a Leica M240 – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

The first lens I procured for my Leica M3 body was a 1958 Summicron 50mm f/2 Dual Range (DR). The Dual Range is unique among Leica 50mm Summicrons because it allows for close ra...

4 August, 2021

More Portraits Please – Making Opportunities to Photograph People – By Peggy Marsh

By Peggy Marsh

Recently I posted a couple of portraits on my Instagram feed and someone commented that it made a nice change. That comment got me thinking, why aren’t there many portraits? How...

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Jeffery Luhn on Twin Lens Reflex – My Experiences and Thoughts on this Camera Type – Show and Tell
Tony, What a remarkable article about the history and results from so many TLR cameras! Great photos! I have many…
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Floyd Thanks for that visit to Diamond Head! That photo could have been taken 75 years ago. Jeffery
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