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7 November, 2025

A Pair of Unusual Lenses Adapted to a Fuji GFX 50S

By Daniel Martínez Barber

7 November, 2025

/ Lens Adapting & Modification, /

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Fuji GFX cameras produce extremely high-quality images, but native lenses are very expensive, hence my need to look for alternative options. I recommend the website deltalenses.com, where you can find information on projection and enlarging lenses...

7 November, 2025

Your photo of the year 2025 (and my photo of the year 2025)

By Hamish Gill

7 November, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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David Pauley shared his photo of the year for 2025 the other day. Scott Ferguson commented on that post that maybe more people could submit their photos of the year as part of a one shot story series. I think this is a great idea, so this post is ...

7 November, 2025

Vivitar EZ Motor Big View – A modern box?

By Tony Warren

7 November, 2025

/ Point & Shoot camera, Vivitar EZ Motor Big View, Vivitar Point & Shoot, /

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Vivitar P&S review, contrast with early box camera.

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4 August, 2020

The Colours of Shanghai / How I came to Publish a Photozine of XPAN shots – By Benoît Felten

By Ben Felten

I am in the process of publishing (and pre-selling) a zine called The Colours of Shanghai. It collects panoramic XPAN photos taken in Shanghai between 2014 and 2016. In August ...

4 August, 2020

5 Frames with the Fujifilm X100V – By Thorsten Wulff

By thorsten

The fifth Fujifilm camera in the X100 series got a facelift, and a new lens. Hamish posted an excellent analysis about all the menu functions and buttons you can assign them to ...

3 August, 2020

Samsung EX2F Review – A Pocket Camera No One Remembers – Orkhan Abbasov

By Orkhan Abbasov

In 2014 my sister was looking forward to buying a new camera and asked for a suggestion. I don’t remember when or where I first heard about Samsung EX2F. It caught my attention ...

3 August, 2020

Tokyo Optical Co. Topcor 50mm f/1.5 LTM (Semi-Sonnar) Mini-Review

By Hamish Gill

This Tokyo Optical Co. (Topcon) Topcor 50mm f/1.5 ltm is a bit of a rarity. It’s also something of an oddity inasmuch as it has been described to me by Perry Ge (off of the Clas...

2 August, 2020

It’s All Done with Mirrors – A Tale of a Telescope Street Photo – By Tom Ace

By Tom Ace

The 1960s and '70s were good times for hobbyists in the USA. Chemicals, electronic parts, and optical supplies were widely available - in some ways more so than they are today. ...

1 August, 2020

5 Frames with a Minolta Alpha Sweet – By Ian

By Ian

Starting the year right with shooting film gave my energy the right positive boost. A week before the Taal volcano erupted we went on a quick break to Tagaytay. It is a tourist ...

1 August, 2020

5 Frames with Halina Pocket 2000 ‘Auto-Kameraset’ – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

Many years ago this rarity was given to my brother-in-law from Holland - he gave it to me due to my fondness for photography and strange things. I never used it and it has been ...

31 July, 2020

One Camera, One Lens – A Methodology that Stuck – by Jack Lowe

By Jack Lowe

My photographic story’s a classic one, a cliché you might say. It all started when I was just 8 years old on the day my grandmother gave me my first camera, passed down to me fr...

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