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5 November, 2025

Original, Freewill, Artificial

By Raymond Wong

5 November, 2025

/ Still Life Photography, /

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Three 50mm lenses that fit my needs (video)

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By Simon King

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13 July, 2018

Petri 1.9 Color Corrected Super Type III – Review by Johnny Sisson

By johnny

My Petri rangefinder obsession began earlier this year when I finally saw one in person for the first time. In February, a pair of Petri 1.9 Color Corrected Super (1.9 CCS) Gree...

12 July, 2018

The Photos Not Taken – by Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

“Please move along,” the man said. I had wanted to photograph the door he opened, of the brownstone on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, along a quiet residential street on an a...

11 July, 2018

5 frames with a Kodak Retina IIIc – by Thomas Merk

By Thomas Merk

After having been a professional photographer for 20 years working with Leicas, medium format and 4x5 cameras, I started around the year 2000 a new career as a writer of books a...

10 July, 2018

Shooting a roll of Kodak HIE infrared film with a Nikon F-301 – by Charles Higham.

By Charles Higham

I’ve wanted to shoot Kodak HIE High-Speed Infrared film for some time. Discontinued in 2007, it became known for producing images with other-worldly qualities through its sensit...

9 July, 2018

A World Within a World, or: A Russian Lens for a Russian Circus – By Robert Poole

By RMPoole

Like a lazy stereotype of a vacuous female in a low budget sitcom, I stood in my room changing outfits. Unable to decide, flip flopping back and forth as the partner paces impat...

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