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3 September, 2021
Texet TX-500 review – Fake Autoexposure Compact ? – by Rock
I'm guessing that no-one, or hardly anyone, has heard of the Texet TX-500. From the mid 1980s? What about the Premier PC-500? It's the same camera. It also goes under a Wizen br...
2 September, 2021
Aperture Zero 04. A Counterpoint
The Pipes Man limbered up to the corrugated barrier with wild eyes. What lay behind may be a fragment of what he had long left behind, but he pressed forward into it regardless,...
2 September, 2021
Jena BM 80mm f/2.8 – Fixed and Adapted to a Sony for Shooting Beautiful Roses – By Jordi Fradera
This is a new adventure with a Jena BM 80mm f/2.8 lens that belongs to the Praktisix. This is a lens that my friend Carles has loaned to me. The camera that has already done its...
April 2021. France was again in a state quarantine due to Covid 19's third wave. We were restricted to an area of 10km around home plus a night curfew. From my teeny tiny flat, ...
30 August, 2021
Aperture Zero 03. GAS
Is a ‘strong sense of listlessness’ even a thing? The Pipes Man was distracted. His day-to-day, the sustenance stuff, the things that objectively matter were slipping. ‘Just fuc...
30 August, 2021
Sony A7iii Mini-Review – Finding the Darkside
It’s taken me 3 generations of Sony full frame mirrorless cameras to get used to the things, but I can now quite comfortably say that I’ve found a certain amount of peace with t...
29 August, 2021
Aperture Zero 02. Glazed Youth
Should he try to meet her glazed gaze through the glass? The girl had no expression. That could just be the vibe here, but it was boring; he could anger her by showing his inten...
29 August, 2021
Juggling Parenting and Film Photography – by Richard McKenzie
It’s a cliché but it’s true: everything changes the moment you become a parent. There’s the stuff they tell you about—the crying, the nappies, the many, many sleepless nights—an...
