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10 August, 2025

Nikkor 43-86mm – The world’s WORST lens!

By Eric Rose

10 August, 2025

/ Nikkor 43-86, SLR lens, Zoom lens, /

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20 October, 2024

The night Venice talked to me

By Julian Tanase

The dark, silky, smooth waters of the canals are silent now, only a few late boats are disturbing the lights that are dancing in the rhythm of the waves. Where there were armies...

20 October, 2024

5 Frames with a Canon G1 – a Little Known Classic

By John Andrews

I wonder how many of you photographers out there can remember your very first film camera? I can… A Petri TTL, purchased from Mr Cad, when he had his shop in West Croydon ...

19 October, 2024

Shooting Fast Alfa Romeo on a Race Track

By Andrea Monti

“The Citroen went into second and remained there; slowly we puffed up the long ascent. We had gone about a mile, when we became aware of a noise coming up from the valley, a noi...

A crowd of people at a gallery exhibition

19 October, 2024

Shooting Cinestill 800T at My Neighbor’s Gallery Exhibition

By Sam Forrest

Early in 2023 a new family moved into the house across the street from me. When they moved in my wife and I did the neighborly thing and went across the street to introduce ours...

The elegant Olympus XA and my muddy shoes after 16km on wet mountain trails.

18 October, 2024

Running with cameras

By Eirik Holmøyvik

The great Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami wrote a book titled What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Let’s talk about running and photography. I am a passionate photogra...

18 October, 2024

Nikkor-H Auto 2.8cm f/3.5 – Wakimoto’s Triumph and Nikon’s Hidden Legacy

By Andrew Bibee

In the late 1950s, one of Nikon’s lead designers at the time, Zenji Wakimoto, was handed down an arduous task that would prove to be one of his greatest triumphs: “Make a lens t...

17 October, 2024

Leica R3 – a camera I was never expecting to buy!

By Phil Harrison

If I hadn’t looked at a certain film camera shops website after I was advised of the bulk movie b/w film they are re-spooling and selling very cheap, I wouldn’t have...

17 October, 2024

TLR Challenge – My Response

By Jeffery Luhn

I’m Jeffery Luhn and I’m happy to respond to Geoff Chaplin’s TLR Challenge! Background: A week after beginning my career as a news photographer in 1969, I acqu...

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