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4 July, 2025

5 Dyptichs with an Olympus Pen EF

By Nicholas Johnson

4 July, 2025

/ Half Frame Camera, Olympus Pen EF, /

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For your consideration, an Olympus Pen EF. Released in 1981 this little camera makes me happy, let me tell you about its best qualities! The Pen EF has a nice little 28mm lens. It is fastest in bright sunlight, and with the flash! The Pen EF comes...
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A Brace of Elmars

4 July, 2025

Leitz 50mm f3.5 and the 135mm f4 – A Brace of Elmars – Sublime to Ridiculous

By Geoff Chaplin

4 July, 2025

/ 135mm Lens, 50mm Lens, Leitz 135mm f/4 ltm Elmar, Leitz 50mm f/3.5 Elmar, normal lens, Rangefinder Lens, /

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Specifically the Leitz 50mm f3.5 and the 135mm f4, both LTM and both are late coated versions. Tony Warren recently wrote an excellent review of the 90mm Elmar should you wish to investigate that one. Ergonomics The 50mm has a front facing f-stop ...
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Latest Posts

19 November, 2024

5 Frames of Kodak Tri-X @3200

By Robin Mascall

Chances are, if you’re into film photography, you’ve at least heard the terms ‘pushing’ and ‘pulling’ film. In a nutshell, pushing or pulling...
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18 November, 2024

Spectacular Vernacular. Memory and Legacy.

By Nik Stanbridge

The camera is a memory machine. And a legacy one. Photography is all about recording memories (or creating them) and building, whether you like it or not, a legacy. They, the me...
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Pentax 67II surrounded by guidebooks

18 November, 2024

Pentax 67II – The Perfect Travel Camera

By Patrick Medd

As a amateur photographer forced against your will to work in some non-camera based occupation, your holidays (vacations, for my friends across the pond) are one of the few occa...
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17 November, 2024

One Man’s Journey in Seven Photos

By Edward Currie

This is a story of one man’s journey in seven photographs. It was actually meant to be a discussion about the superb resolving power of lenses and emulsions in the very early 20...
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The Gigapixel Image

17 November, 2024

The Gigapixel Image

By Geoff Chaplin

I’d like to report an interesting (well, I thought so anyway) discussion that took place at my village camera club the other day. The topic was “How to Achieve a Gigapixel Image...
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Group of marbles

16 November, 2024

Dust and mud and the marbles

By Cem Eren

Dave Powell had recently published a post about his adventures with c-mount marble macros. I commented on that post saying he had inspired me to shoot my marbles which were rece...
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Kodak Easyshare DX7630

15 November, 2024

5 Frames with a Kodak Easyshare DX7630

By Sebastian Shields

I’ve had a tumultuous, and possibly longer than I’d like, experience with my Kodak Easyshare DX7630. On one hand, the colors out of the Kodak CCD sensor can be beautiful, while ...
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