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Indoor Training -Helicopter rescue with winch

28 October, 2025

Unique Mountain Rescue Training Hall near Munich – and my Ricoh GR III Impressions

By Jens

28 October, 2025

/ Ricoh GRiii, /

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As both a physician and an enthusiastic amateur photographer, my visit in May 2025 to the training hall of the mountain rescue service in Bad Tölz/Gaißach, about 50 km south of Munich in Germany, was an unforgettable highlight. The continuing medi...

Featured image of Canon AE-1 Program

28 October, 2025

My Introduction to Fillm Photography

By Randy Castillo

28 October, 2025

/ Finding Film Photography, /

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My introduction into photography began many years ago around 2015 or 2016 with a Sony digital a5000. A small compact APS-C camera I purchased from Best Buy for a whopping $400! Around this time, I knew nothing about photography. Absolutely nothing...

28 October, 2025

There’s more to the garden than the BBQ – A tale of four cameras and a deadly ladder.

By Simon Bohrsmann

28 October, 2025

/ Flora Photograpy, /

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Don’t get me wrong, I love my BBQ. In the summer it smokes and sizzles with all kinds of marinated goodies getting a good char. But a garden needs cheer as well, and that comes from the erratically planted plants which can be divided into ed...

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5 December, 2017

5 Frames with a Leica CL – By Dan Castelli

By Dan Castelli

I’ve had a love/hate relationship w/my Leica CL. I like its small size & the M-mount capabilities. I dislike its front mounted s/speed dial and the removable back. I rarely ...

3 December, 2017

The Perfect 35mm Compact Camera – by Roger Hicks

By Roger Hicks

The perfect 35mm compact camera does not exist. There are two reasons for this. One is that there are limits to how far you can miniaturize a reliable, durable, easy-to-use came...

30 November, 2017

5 Frames with a Minolta M-Rokkor 90mm 1:4 – By Rollin Banderob

By Rollin Banderob

I don’t remember what brought the Minolta M-Rokkor 90mm f/4 lens to my attention, however I do know according to a Sept., 2014 email I paid $219 to an ebay seller in Japan for i...

28 November, 2017

5 Frames with a Plaubel Makina 67 – By Adam Laws

By Adam Laws

When the executives at Fuji killed off peel-apart film it was a sad day for analogue photography. I adored my Polaroid Land Camera 195 and the beautiful muted tones of FP100c. T...

26 November, 2017

Voigtlander 28mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar Review

By Hamish Gill

The Voigtlander 28mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar fits into a category of lenses I own that I can’t quite entirely rationalise. It’s a lens that I only use once or twice a year, but despi...

25 November, 2017

Rollei 35 Review- A brace of rolleis – by Malcolm Myers

By Malcolm Myers

Last year, my wife rang me from a boot sale and asked if I was interested in a camera called a Rollei 35. I did a quick bit of Googling and, seeing this glorious collection of l...

23 November, 2017

5 Frames with a Minox B Subminiature Camera – By Wayne Pinney

By Wayne Pinney

“Did it make you feel like a Spy”? was Hamish’s response to my question regarding whether or not he was interested in a piece about the Minox B. Well, it does. But the fact of t...

21 November, 2017

5 frames with an Intrepid 5×4 Field Camera and Schneider APO-Symmar 5.6/150 lens – By Richard Pickup

By Richard Pickup

I am primarily a rangefinder photographer, of street scenes, people and other moments of opportunity. It has, however, been a long-standing ambition of mine to take up large for...

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Jeffery Luhn on Unique Mountain Rescue Training Hall near Munich – and my Ricoh GR III Impressions
Jen, Wow, that's an impressive training facility! I enjoyed reading about the weather simulations. Very good quality B&W images. It…
Jeffery Luhn on There’s more to the garden than the BBQ – A tale of four cameras and a deadly ladder.
Simon, When I come back, being a cat in your garden is among my top ten choices. Very nice shots…
Scott Ferguson on Leica vs Leica – M vs R cameras & lenses and thoughts on Rangefinders & SLRs
Thanks Ian, I think I had heard that before. Bit of a buzzkill to only be able to go one…

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