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10 August, 2025

Harman Phoenix 200 (first gen) – Well Underexposed

By Eagle Omomuro

The moment I received the scans from my first roll of Harman Phoenix 200, the older version with the orange packaging, I knew something was off. Every frame was underexposed by ...

10 August, 2025

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

By Eric Rose

I’m a heretic. It’s true. I’m not a big fan of sharp lenses with tons of contrast. I’ve also got a thing against Subaru’s. No real reason, just don’t like them...

8 August, 2025

Konica C35 – Bringing a 60s rangefinder back to life with a bit of tape

By Mike Riess

Over the past few years, I’ve become enamored with late 60s/early 70s rangefinder cameras. Not the Leicas, mind you — budget won’t allow — but I have found great joy in shootin...

6 August, 2025

Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6 – Adapting a digital medium format lens to film

By Simon Foale

A few years ago the managers of the university I work for decided that the Creative Arts department, which taught a number of photography subjects, was insufficiently profitable...

5 August, 2025

Voigtlander Bessamatic – A retrospective look at a marketplace find.

By Steve Kotajarvi

One of my daily routines includes a search in the local classifieds for cameras. Initially fueled by my obsession with finding “that perfect camera” and later to fin...

2 August, 2025

Photographers in fiction

By Graham Spinks

I’ve just finished reading Tatjana Soli’s amazing novel The Lotus Eaters which tells the story of a female press photographer documenting the Vietnam war. As so often, I’m somet...

2 August, 2025

Widelux in the Wine Country

By Zheng Li

For a recent family vacation to Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country, I opted for a single camera and lens: the Widelux F7. This swing-lens panoramic camera, fam...

1 August, 2025

Box Brownie model 2A.

By Tony Warren

The Kodak Box Brownie 2A and adapting it for 120 film.

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