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7 October, 2025

Up-Tech – A Short Roll of Questionable Photography

By Nicholas Johnson

7 October, 2025

/ Point & Shoot camera, Up-Tech point & shoot camera, /

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The Up-Tech is a camera. Mine has a face drawn on it, and I bought it after a very mild evening at a local brewery. I’ve decided to write a post about it. A 5 US$ dollar camera, a 4.20 US$ roll of film, and around 80 cents ( rounding out the cost...

7 October, 2025

5 frames in France with a Contax RX

By Alastair Bell

7 October, 2025

/ Contax RX, Fujifilm film, /

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I have a problem. I love cameras. Especially older film cameras. It’s that tactile feeling of holding it and finding all the controls under my fingertips. A couple of years ago I dug out the remnants of an earlier collection I had and starte...

Holding the HP iPaq with camera attachment

7 October, 2025

HP PhotoSmart Mobile Camera review – an SD card camera for Windows PDAs

By Charlotte

7 October, 2025

/ Compact Digital, digital camera, HP Digital Camera, HP PhotoSmart Mobile Camera, /

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In the age of smartphones, the idea of not having a camera in your pocket at all times may seem foreign. But even as far as twenty years ago, there were developments to try and make it happen. See the PDA, the darling of science fiction, and a com...

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2 September, 2020

Cyanotype Printing with Pre-Coated Paper – By Benoît Felten

By Ben Felten

Nearly ten years ago my good friend and amazing artist Sinead McDonald taught me cyanotype printing, and ever since then I've been meaning to get back into it on my own, but thi...

1 September, 2020

5 Frames with a Leica M6, Lomochrome Purple, and a Lomography Minitar-1 Art Lens – By Marco Diaz

By Marco Diaz

More often than not, inspiration can be found in the unusual pairing. The way a great restaurant might surprise you by combining two seemingly disparate food types. Or two seemi...

31 August, 2020

Searching for Relevant Difference in a Digital Commercial World – By Tim Cole

By Tim Cole

I’ve often struggled with the digital age, the chase for visual perfection. Always feeling behind the curve. Hounded constantly by camera brand marketing, ‘to be a great photogr...

31 August, 2020

Pentax SFX Review – 1980s First-Gen AF SLR Joy!

By Hamish Gill

On face value, Pentax SFX is a fairly big and heavy, first generation autofocus SLR film camera with an obscure user interface, some superfluous features and a strong 1980s desi...

30 August, 2020

5 Fast-Paced Frames with the Nikon 70-210 f/4 Series E – by Simon King

By Simon King

For a while now I've wanted to work more with faster paced, more energetic situations, in order to make images with a bit more dynamic movement. I think this is a response to th...

29 August, 2020

5 Frames, 2 Rolls of Film, and 1 Mamiya Press Super 23 – By Floyd K. Takeuchi

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

At the westernmost point of Oahu, the Hawaiian Island that is home to Honolulu and Waikiki Beach, is an area of desolate beauty called Kaena Point. Now a state protected nature ...

28 August, 2020

Fight of the Fifties… – By Bent_Brent

By Bent_Brent

This was mean to be a very different article. You see, stuck as I was with my family in lockdown, I thought it would be the perfect time to compare a bunch of 50mm lenses in eve...

28 August, 2020

Lomography Fisheye 2 Camera Review – Family Vacation – By Alex Vye

By Alex Vye

I acquired the Lomography Fisheye 2 a coupe of years ago when a colleague came to my cubicle (unfortunately, in real life I am a cubicle-dwelling software developer) and said "...

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Alastair Bell on First Experiments with Classic Lenses and 102-megapixels of Fuji GFX 100 – By Tudor Stanescu
Interesting read and a route I'm about to head down with a GFX100S II. I'm getting a Fringer Nikon to…
Jeffery Luhn on Up-Tech – A Short Roll of Questionable Photography
Nicholas, Some funny lines in your posting that made me smile. I treasure my time spent shooting film, so I'm…
Alastair Bell on 5 frames in France with a Contax RX
Thank you Omar. Definitely get the RX fixed. It has to be one of the nicest feeling cameras I've ever…

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