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28 February, 2020

Pentax KX review: My first. My favorite? – by Aaron Gold

By Aaron Gold

It’s been nearly three decades since I signed up for my first college photography class, and I am only now beginning to realize how lucky I was to start out with a Pentax KX. Mo...

26 February, 2020

Rollei 135 Film – Experiments with Three Stocks – by Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

Rolleiflex is a brand that is associated with photography cameras, in particular medium frame film cameras. Rolleiflex has a fairly complicated corporate history (see wikipedia)...

22 February, 2020

Yashica T4 Review – Goodbye to an old friend – By Clive Williams

By Clive Williams

The Yashica T4 and I go back a long way: right back to 1993, when I bought one in Birmingham as a quick and pocketable complement to my Pentax SLR kit. I’d looked at the Olympus...

21 February, 2020

Canon Sure Shot Zoom XL Review – An Elegant Brute – By Mike Hannon

By Mike Hannon

I got into film photography shooting a nifty fifty on an Olympus OM body while I was on holiday. I don’t think I even had a battery for the meter. But according to Kirk Mastin’s...

18 February, 2020

Ricoh GRIII and GR1s Experience Comparison by a Film Agnostic – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

I am sure to get some grief about this piece given that my last article on the analog Ricoh GR1s ended with my resolution that I was not interested in buying a digital GR. Well,...

14 February, 2020

TTArtisan 21mm f/1.5 ASPH review – by Vincent Bihler

By vincentbihler

We are currently living a very exciting period of time. The lens market has been rencently opened with third party producers that are becoming better and better, often at a very...

10 February, 2020

Minolta 28mm f/3.5 G-Rokkor Review – Another Gem I’m Parting With

By Hamish Gill

I’ve owned this Minolta G-Rokkor 28mm f/3.5 for quite a while now - I had Bellamy find me one after I sold my Minolta TC-1 (also bought from Bellamy), the camera from which the ...

7 February, 2020

Kodak Tri-X Review – Five Decades and Counting of Praise – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

At the beginning of every new year, full of ambitious resolutions, I try to do some cleaning up at home, both physical and electronic. The physical does not achieve all that muc...

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Andrew on Wider Isn’t Always Better
I still like wide angle lenses but realize they are most effective when used sparingly. Often that definition of 'sparing'…
Andrew on Wider Isn’t Always Better
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Daniel Martínez Barber on A Pair of Unusual Lenses Adapted to a Fuji GFX 50S
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