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18 May, 2025

Shooting Italian 5 birilli

By Andrea Monti

18 May, 2025

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15 April, 2025

5 frames exploring the Sporting Gun Culture in Italy

By Andrea Monti

Firearms and gun culture are a very sensitive issue. Privately owned weapons are associated to mass shooting and individual killings, street violence and law enforcement abuses....

15 April, 2025

A Paul Chaleff Vase Series

By David Pauley

In this series of photos, taken with my Rolleiflex 2.8F, I focus on a vase made in the 1980s by noted American potter and ceramist Paul Chaleff (he’s shown above in a port...

14 April, 2025

Samoca Super 28XLM Review – A Fantastic Littler Rangefinder

By MARTIN MISIAK

Say hello to my little Samoca rangefinder. “Sa-MO-ca!” Fun to say, isn’t it? Made around 1957, it was part of a wave of new cameras made by new marques that...

14 April, 2025

Fujifilm S5 Pro and What does “Film-Like” Even Mean?

By David Hume

Most film shooters would know that over the past few years there’s been chatter about certain older camera sensors, in particular CCD sensors, that are widely reported to...

13 April, 2025

A Chapel in the Middle of Nowhere – A One-Shot Story

By Stelios Themelakis

What is special about Greece? What is the ethos of this country? What lies beneath the Greek Summer and the stereotypical misconceptions? This is a small chapel I came across on...

13 April, 2025

Frozen Trains and a bit of my backstory into photography

By Phil Bear

Back in 2008, I was a student and my friend’s girlfriend bought a Nikon D40 SLR camera. When I looked at the digital images taken with the SLR, I was impressed by their co...

12 April, 2025

5 Frames with a Nikon FE

By Gary Smith

In an earlier article I described getting a Nikon FE and how the lens supplied with it fell apart. I recently took the FE to Seaside, Oregon to see how it would do with the new/...

11 April, 2025

Keks KF-01 Flash Review (Including a little guide to using a manual flash)

By Hamish Gill

This is a review of the Keks KF-01 Flash written by someone who isn’t a flash photographer. It is also a review that’s written by someone who already likes Keks pr...

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