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17 September, 2025

A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power

By Andrea Monti

17 September, 2025

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5 September, 2025

Slowly stumbling into large format

By Gary Smith

I’m beginning this article in early August 2025. I first started thinking about large format somewhere in 2024 and began watching various YouTube videos that covered the c...

5 September, 2025

Nons Instant Back – Is this a review…?

By Michael Morales

The Nons instant back has been out for a while now… so I’ll spare you the technical review, unboxing, and product photos. Instead I’d like to tell you why this product is perfec...

4 September, 2025

Solinon Optik 18mm f/5.6 ASPH Review & Super Wides are Not Just for Buildings

By Rollin Banderob

Super-wide lens’s promotional materials, reviews and forum posts seem to lean heavily to architectural and landscape images. That generally is not how I have used this cla...

4 September, 2025

Capturing Nova Scotia on Film

By David Smith

When I was 21, my parents moved from the hard-hitting, nickel-mining city of Sudbury, Ontario, to the quaint touristy town of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. With little hesitation, I ...

3 September, 2025

5 Frames in Waco, Texas with a Pentax K1000

By Tibra Ali

I spent several years after my PhD working for Baylor University in Waco, Texas; First as a post-doc and then as a lecturer at the Physics Department. Waco is a mid-sized but qu...

3 September, 2025

‘One Third Keepers’ with a Minolta 9000 and Kentmere Pan 200

By Bob Janes

The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...

2 September, 2025

Me and a Fish (Circa 1960) – A One Shot Story

By Curtis Heikkinen

One of my most vivid memories of growing up on Twenty Mile Stream Road in Proctorsville, Vermont, is of pulling that brook trout out of the small brook that flowed in back of ou...

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2 September, 2025

5 frames in Switzerland with a MINOX 35 GT and Silbersalz 35 500T

By PASCAL

I am a French electronics engineer, having spent most of my career in information systems. Now retired, I have more time to devote to photographic hobbies. I started photography...

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