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15 December, 2025

A New Take on “Take”

By Tom Warland

15 December, 2025

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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the vocabulary we use in photography—specifically the words we reach for without even realising. Words like take, capture, and shoot. They’re so ingrained in photographic culture that most of us use them dozen...

15 December, 2025

Frozen Light – My photo of the year 2025

By AndreArma

15 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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I took this picture on a bitterly cold January morning while crossing a bridge on the St. Croix River in Minnesota. The temperature was well below zero, the kind of cold that makes every breath visibile and every sound sharper. The sun had just co...

Chroma Cameras CubePan

15 December, 2025

Chroma Camera CubePan – A Review, and my Journey into Panoramic Photography

By Steve Abbott

15 December, 2025

/ Chroma Camera, Chroma Camera Cube Pan, Panoramic Camera, /

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So despite having a number of cameras (all film) – three Leica rangefinders (don’t judge!), a Leica SLR, bought for a specific purpose, which I don’t use any more and will sell, a Rolleicord 6×6 TLR, an old 6×9 folder (also t...

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26 October, 2019

NEWS: New Ilford Photo Ortho Film, a Liquid Filled lens from Lomography and more

By Hamish Gill

A few bits of news this week, the first is from Ilford photo who, after a week or so of teasing us all on social media, have released Ilford Otho Plus Film as well as upgrading ...

26 October, 2019

5 frames from Mo’orea with a Nikonos III – by Marc Gabor

By marcgabor

To most people “Tahiti” immediately conjures up images of paradise; aquamarine lagoons, palm trees and volcanic peaks jutting out of the middle of the pacific. Tahiti is in fact...

25 October, 2019

Yashica Electro 35 GS – A Personal Journey to Find My Perfect Rangefinder Camera – By Salman Rameli

By salmanrameli

My name is Salman Rameli, a 23 years old software developer from Surabaya, Indonesia. My interest in photography started when I was 6 years old, after my father bought a Canon P...

24 October, 2019

Ilford FP4+ – My First Roll Review – By Gavin Bain

By GavinBain

Options. One of the many things that I really love in regards to film photography is the options. You have a plethora of different cameras and lenses to choose from, different f...

23 October, 2019

5 Frames with an Olympus XA4 – with Wen Zeng

By Wen Zeng

When I started shooting film in high school and started doing research on old film cameras, I was immediately captivated by the Olympus XA series for its diminutive size and len...

22 October, 2019

Yashica Electro 35 – A mini review at The Mission Inn – By Eric Norris

By Eric Norris

The Yashica Electro 35 is one of those cameras that the "in-the-know" rangefinder experts insist we must own. It's a classically styled full-frame 35mm camera with a nice lens t...

21 October, 2019

Pentax MX – doing the “one camera” thing to aid a lack of inspiration

By Hamish Gill

The Pentax MX has come to me at a strange time in my photography journey. It’s come to me when I’m at an all time low ebb both in terms of my inspiration to shoot and my inspira...

20 October, 2019

5 Frames with a Nikon F4 (and lots of tears and too much booze) – By Luis Barros

By Luis Barros

My oldest kid got married on September 6. He had a wedding photographer to take the official photos, the digital ones. You know the kind. It was the perfect occasion for me to g...

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