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10 December, 2025

Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4 – A Demanding Use Case

By Andrea Monti

10 December, 2025

/ Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4, /

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For shooting Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at Teatro Marrucino, I took a Carl Zeiss Jena 135/4 lens as a backup for long shots. Master Adriano Lolli replaced the original Contax mount with a Fuji X mount, saving me from the inconvenience o...

10 December, 2025

Predator Or Vampire: A Revision of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

By Andrea Monti

10 December, 2025

/ Fuji X-T5, Stage Performance Photography, /

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Yesterday night I was on the (back)stage of Teatro Marrucino for the premiere of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as always in my capacity of official photographer, with the goal of documenting the event for the theatre’s photographic library. I have ...

Singapore's Tiong Bahru Neighborhood

10 December, 2025

A Stroll Through Singapore’s Tiong Bahru Neighborhood with a roll of Kodak Double-X

By Danai

10 December, 2025

/ Contax T, Kodak Double-X, travel photography, /

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It was the last day of my trip to Singapore for a conference, and I was hoping to make the most of it photographically. After being stuck indoors for the past couple of days, I was eager to get out and explore. I’ve visited Singapore many times an...

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19 March, 2018

Shooting Film on Assignment: Can it Compete with Digital? – by Simon King

By Simon King

Shooting film for commissioned work is unfortunately becoming much rarer, despite the efforts of communities like this blog to keep the medium alive. For hobbyists and fine arti...

18 March, 2018

What is a Rangefinder Camera, and is one right for you?

By Hamish Gill

For many photographers rangefinder cameras are some of the most simple, easy to use, unimposing and inconspicuous cameras available. Yet for those who don’t get on with them, th...

17 March, 2018

The Sunbeams Analogue Photography News – Negatives Positive and Self Portraits

By The Sunbeams

Greetings and shutter actuations film fans for another round up of the comings (and goings) at Sunny 16 Towers. March came in like a snow covered Lion, but we dug ourselves out ...

17 March, 2018

Canon 7 Review – by Terry B.

By Terry B

I recall as a 16-year old and having taken up photography about a year earlier, seeing in the photographic press the arrival of the Canon 7 with a lens of the simply unheard of ...

15 March, 2018

5 Frames with an Olympus OM-2N – by Shameer Yaqin

By Shameer Yaqin

I live in Singapore now, and the one thing that really bugs me here is the fact you never really get a clear view of the sky. Everything is built upwards, and it’s so dense that...

14 March, 2018

Forward Motion – On the Road with Saint Etienne – By Mike Monaghan

By Mike Monaghan

My career behind the drums first took me on the road some 7 or so years back and since then I’ve had the good fortune to tour as far and wide as America, Europe, China and Russi...

14 March, 2018

5 (6) frames with a Hasselblad in Mississippi – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

Dear Readers, I still have a few rolls of Ektar 25 in 120 size in my freezer. My rolls expired in 1995, but fortunately they seem to be responding correctly without obvious colo...

13 March, 2018

5 Frames with a Vivitar 35ES – By Howard Dale

By Howard Dale

Internet reviews of the Vivitar 35ES seem to agree that it’s a well built camera with a great lens, but which is otherwise uninspired. So why did I get get it?

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