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22 April, 2026

7Artisans 35mm f/2.8 Ultra-Compact Rangefinder Lens Review

By Alexander Doran

22 April, 2026

/ 35mm Lens, 7Artisans 35mm f/2.8, Rangefinder Lens, Wide-Angle Lens, /

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Released today (22nd of April 2026), the new 7Artisans 35mm f/2.8 lens occupies a poorly-explored niche in the modern era; that of the sharp, ultra-compact prime lens. And believe me, despite its few limitations it absolutely delivers, especially ...

22 April, 2026

What the Lever Opened – One Shot Story

By Josh Baker

22 April, 2026

/ Double Exposure, Kodak Double-X, Nikon FM2n, /

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This is not who I was allowed to be. Circumstances in my past lives built boundaries around the innermost states that contained freedom. Vulnerability. They inhibited stepping outside of the identity I constructed. I was produced to be formal, ser...

LeRouge 612 panorama pinhole camera for 120 film

22 April, 2026

LeRouge 612 MK2 – Portable Panoramic Pinhole – Why Barnack would have approved of it

By Jens Kotlenga

22 April, 2026

/ LeRouge 612 MK2, Panoramic Camera, Pinhole Cameras, /

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So there was this guy who took it upon himself to hike from the Atlantic Ocean all the way down to the Mediterranean, following the Pyrenean long-distance mountain trail, all of 850 kilometres in 48 days. In his backpack he had made room for a pan...

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11 January, 2019

Minox 35 GT review – a true pocket camera – by Gaston W

By Gaston

I met the Minox 35 GT about a year ago, and it has stayed in my pocket ever since. You read it right, in my pocket. This is certainly the smallest 35mm camera I’ve seen. The Min...

10 January, 2019

5 Frames With An Olympus OM10 – Gavin Bain

By GavinBain

Firstly, I would like to confess my undying love for Kodak Gold 100. It has been one of my favourite film stocks to shoot for years, and sadly it's not a film that you can walk ...

9 January, 2019

5 Candid Portraits in Tsukiji Pushing T-Max 100 with a Leica M6J and Summicron 50mm f/2- By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

Tsukiji is one of the few remaining neighborhoods in Tokyo where you can get a sense of what the city was like in the 1950s and 1960s, and a favorite street photography stomping...

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...

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Walter Reumkens on Olympus AZ-300 – Out of the Drawer and Into The Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvenation (Part 3)
Omar must have highlighted the issue in his comment to the Sony designer. However, one must also bear in mind…
Niall Keohane on Olympus AZ-300 – Out of the Drawer and Into The Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvenation (Part 3)
Hmm, 4 relistings doesn't bode well for my plan to move it on! Thanks for the comment, Keith.
Niall Keohane on Olympus AZ-300 – Out of the Drawer and Into The Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvenation (Part 3)
I'm afraid my technical knowledge doesn't fully understand the intricacies of lens design, but I've just had a look at…

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