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12 July, 2018
The Photos Not Taken – by Frank H. Wu
“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
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...
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...
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...
The Canon 50mm f/1.4 ltm is a lens that doesn’t seem to quite have the following it deserves - or at least that’s what you’d guess by looking at their used value. I think in rea...
7 July, 2018
Yashica Ninja Star II AF-J2 Review – Thoughts on Salvage (NSFW) – Pedro Trevino’s P&S Journal #2
The The Yashica Ninja Star II AF-J2 isn’t my first Yashica. Early last year I found an odd plastic camera I hadn’t heard of: a Kyocera P. Mini 2. At the time, I was unawar...
6 July, 2018
Analogue Adventurer Kit & the Pinbox Camera Obscura – Makers made photography stuff for makers
I've just had two cool little photography products appear under my nose, both made with the intention of encouraging people to learn about photography, both really accessibly pr...
Here is how I repaired my Voigtlander Nokton lens, the 42.5mm for the M43 system. I had dropped it. The lens filter, a B&W ultraviolet model, was shattered, and, worse, stuck on...
