31 March, 2026
Wollaston Meniscus 125mm f1.6 Review
One of my favorite parts of film photography is experimenting with new-to-me gear, processes, and formats. Large format photography is a particularly good venue for this since i...
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Over the last few years I have been fascinated by the amazing story of Afghan Box Cameras. If you are not familiar with them, Afghan Box Cameras are a category of “instant...
9 July, 2024
Bi-Pack Bi-Chromes: or How I learned to love making color pictures on black and white film in a single exposure
Recently, I was chatting with the manager of VSSOutlet, a mostly online used camera gear shop, but which also happens to be located near me. He showed me a weird sliding large f...
27 December, 2023
5 Frames with “WP-Tech 100” and a repaired XA2
A few years ago I was gifted an XA2 via my local Buy/Nothing group after a bunch of people who were offered it first changed their minds when they realized it wasnt a digital ca...
8 December, 2023
The Cirkut-Holga: A toy slitscan panorama camera
Last year, a friend sent me an article about someone using a 100 year old Cirkut camera to make amazing contact-printed panoramic photos on 8 inch wide paper. I hadn’t known any...