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9 June, 2025

A Year in Pictures – 12 Frames in 12 Months

By Scott Ferguson

9 June, 2025

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27 August, 2024

Folk Art on Wheels — One-Shot Story

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Anyone fond of later-20th- and early-21st-century automobiles will enjoy Jim Grey’s “Old Cars Parked” columns and his posts on the “Curbside Classic” site. In them he shoots and...

27 August, 2024

A Collector’s Journey From Microscopes to Cancer to Cameras

By David Smith

My passion for film photography began with a different sort of vintage lens, the kind you mount to an aged brass microscope. I’m a biologist and have always been fascinated with...

26 August, 2024

Light Lens Lab Eight Element 35mm f/2 review

By vincentbihler

Light Lens Lab is one of the newest Chinese lens manufacturers that started making replicas of legendary lenses in 2019. Their first lens, and best selling so far, is the Light ...

25 August, 2024

The Whole Test Roll – Hasselblad 503CX and Ilford XP2 Super

By John Greene

Well spotted if you noticed that the header picture is not a 503CX, why will become clear shortly. For almost 50 years I yearned for a V series Hasselblad but they were always w...

24 August, 2024

5 Frames with a Leica M6 and Slide Film

By Lasse Andersen

To be frank, E6 isn’t EZ. If you’ve read anything about slide film (E6 or reversal film) online it is that to unleash the real potential of it’s magnificent deep colour palette,...

23 August, 2024

The Accidental Double Exposure: A Virtual Architectural Vision – a One Shot Story

By Jens

As an avid hobbyist photographer, my journey through the world of analog photography has been marked by moments of surprise and serendipity. One such moment occurred recently wh...

23 August, 2024

Maximizing Garage Sale And Thrift Store Finds

By Azriel Knight

22 August, 2024

Thornton Pickard Rubyette No. 2 – So now what?

By Steviemac

So now what? This is the question I ask myself, or perhaps should have asked myself when I rashly bought this wonderful example of an English plate camera. It’s a Thornton...

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