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4 August, 2025

Crazy email nonsense – A quick note to contributors

By Hamish Gill

4 August, 2025

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Apologies for the onslaught of email notifications today. We lost them all over the weekend, but when the dev guys attempted to fix this, they swung the needle too far the other way and everyone got all the notifications. Unfortunately, the signif...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By David Pauley

4 August, 2025

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I want to start by thanking my fellow Brooklyner and 35mmc contributor Scott Ferguson for inviting me to join him in a new twist on a “Five Frames” presentation where we take turns talking about five frames of each other’s work. ...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By Scott Ferguson

4 August, 2025

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By way of introduction, fellow contributor David Pauley and I are doing a variation on the “Five Frames” post where I will be leading a conversation about five frames of David’s, and he will look at five frames of mine in a companion post. This id...

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17 January, 2020

7artisans 50mm f/1.1 Long Term Review – by Simon King

By Simon King

7artisans have been producing some absolutely fantastic options in the low-budget lens department, and one of their best entries for rangefinder coupled full frame cameras is th...

16 January, 2020

Shooting Black & White Film at the Zoo – by Christian Schroeder

By Christian Schroeder

I have found a new thrill: photographing animals at the Hanover Zoo, my local menagerie.Well, what is it about then? Taking pictures of animals differs from taking pictures of h...

15 January, 2020

Up Close and Personal with the Ricoh GR1s and Kodak T-Max P3200 at EI12,800 – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

The Ricoh GR cameras have had a kind of cult following as a street photographer’s tool of choice going back to the days when Daido Moriyama was roaming the streets of Kabukicho ...

14 January, 2020

Olympus XA3 Review – Highs and Lows of Travel Photography with a Simple Compact Camera – By Keith Tomlinson

By keith1974

Well, what can I say? I fell foul of hype and hyperbole this year and I have learnt my lesson. I own a perfectly good Olympus Trip and a Rollei 35 but no that was not enough! ...

13 January, 2020

Ilford Ortho Plus Review – My First two rolls

By Hamish Gill

I must admit, I wasn’t all that excited when Ilford Ortho Plus was announced. I mean, I was enthused by the fact that Ilford had brought a new stock to 120 and 35mm - this sort ...

12 January, 2020

American Dream Colors: On US Roads with my Canon AE-1 – By J.M. Saponaro

By jmsaponaro

I’ve been lucky to spend a lot of time in the US, thanks to my job in New York. As a software engineer in a very technical industry, photography has been for a few years my esca...

11 January, 2020

Canon 50mm F1.8 LTM on A Leica T – by Ed Lara

By Photoedontheweb

As much as I enjoy shooting film, I still take the majority of my photographs with digital cameras. That said, I prefer to use cameras and lenses which give me as much simplicit...

10 January, 2020

Voigtlander VSL 1 review

By Natalie B.

The Voigtlander VSL 1 is a camera with an interesting and somewhat complicated history. It was originally launched in 1971 as Zeiss Ikon SL706, the last camera of that famous co...

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LASousa on Crazy email nonsense – A quick note to contributors
No worries on this end. You will get things figured out. I don't envy your requirements to keep this site…
LASousa on Widelux in the Wine Country
I admire you and the commenters who use these pano cameras. Jeff Bridges is apparently working on producing new pano…
David Pauley on Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames
Thank you Gary! I wrote a bit more on the other post but really appreciate your reading and commenting.

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