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26 October, 2025

Mamiya-6 Automat – GAS ATTACK!!!

By Geoff Chaplin

26 October, 2025

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8 January, 2019

Do We Need to Know What We’re Looking At? – By Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

I recently took two tours that revealed different philosophies about how we look at the world around us. At the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, there are no title cards for t...

7 January, 2019

Yashica Y35 Review – it’s not for us hoity-toity elitist film photographers, you know!?

By Hamish Gill

The Yashica Y35 is without doubt one of the most controversial products to have hit the analogue photography community in the last year or so. Of course, it’s not analogue, so w...

6 January, 2019

5 Frames with a Canonet QL17 G-III – By Wen Zeng

By Wen Zeng

While on vacation in China and Hong Kong this past month, I realized that my poor condition Leica M2 had a malfunctioning shutter - speeds above 1/250 were entirely unusable, an...

5 January, 2019

Nikon S2 Review – Upstart Rival to the Leica M3 – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

In 2015 when I decided I wanted to give film photography a try, it was the Leica M3 rangefinder that intrigued me the most. However, at the time I did not feel I was ready to pl...

4 January, 2019

Asahi Takumar 24mm Lens on a Leica M2 – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

When I travel overseas and need to pack light, I often take my Leica M2 rangefinder camera with compact 35mm and 50mm f/2.0 Summicron lenses (along with light meter, filters, an...

3 January, 2019

35mm Compact Camera Photographer #30 – Wen Zeng

By Wen Zeng

My name is Wen. I'm a 23 year-old design strategist from Los Angeles, California. I'm an avid traveler, reader, and someone who possesses an unbound curiosity for the world.

2 January, 2019

5 frames with a Smena Symbol – by Matt Evans

By Matt Evans

I can't remember when or how I came to own my Smena Symbol, mostly because I've got two young kids and can barely remember what I had for dinner yesterday but at a guess I'd say...

1 January, 2019

Motivation in Your Photography or The Importance of A Project – By Julian Higgs

By julianhiggs

It is often said that the best way to improve something, anything that you do creatively is to give yourself a project. A self set goal that focuses your creative energies onto ...

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