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11 July, 2025

Leica Elmarit-M 90mm f2.8 and a History Photo Walk

By Geoff Chaplin

11 July, 2025

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21 June, 2019

Fujifilm Klasse 38mm F/2.6 Review – By David Narbecki

By David Narbecki

The Fujifilm Klasse (also branded as the Rollei RFM 35) was a premium compact made in 2001, well after the premium compact craze of the early 90's. With a f/2.6 38mm lens it was...

20 June, 2019

Frames with the Mighty Hasselblad XPAN – By Yul Vazquez

By Yul Vazquez

The Hasselblad Xpan is a camera I've always wanted since I first saw Mary Ellen Mark use one on the set of Steven Soderbergh's Che films - she had come over Spain to shoot some ...

19 June, 2019

5 Frames with Fuji Velvia 50 and an Olympus OM-1 – By Ben Kepka

By Ben Kepka

I have a love/hate relationship with slide film. The colours are second to none and the contrast is uniquely crisp. However, the costs associated with shooting slide film seem t...

18 June, 2019

5 Frames with Olympus IS-1000 and the film it came with – by Matt Krajewski

By Pure.amateur

I have many Olympus cameras in my collection. The reason is that you can't really go wrong with Olympus.....Can you? Well, so far I haven't. So, when I came across this IS-1000 ...

17 June, 2019

Leica M10-P vs. Sony A7riii and Shooting the Simon and Garfunkel Story

By Hamish Gill

A couple of months ago I got myself up very early one Sunday and travelled to Plymouth to take some photos for the production company of a stage production called “The Simon and...

16 June, 2019

5 Frames with a Nikon FE (and a return to film photography) – By Thorsten Wulff

By thorsten

In the sweltering Berlin summer of 2010 I sat over what should become my second Adobe Lightroom book. Because of the heat I got up early in the morning to go out and shoot stuff...

15 June, 2019

Kodak Ektar 25 – Living in the Past, a Hasselblad, and Flooding in Mississippi – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

Yes, I know, I am living in the past. I remember when I could buy a Shutterbug in the supermarket, read through page after page of small-text advertisements, and call (with my l...

14 June, 2019

Protest Photography – Composing and Shooting Hong Kong’s Mass Protests with a Konica Hexar RF and XPan

By Perry Ge

On Sunday June 9th, 2019, Hong Kong saw a mass protest of over a million people demonstrating against a proposed law that would allow extradition to Mainland China. For a city o...

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