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3 August, 2022

5 Largely Unknown Digital-Infrared Gems – By Dave Powell

By Dave Powell

For nearly a quarter century, I've tested every digital camera that crossed my path to see how well it handled infrared photography. Some didn't pass muster, like my beloved Min...

31 July, 2022

Why I Prefer to use Film for my Street Photography – By Armando Caballero

By Armando Caballero

Street photography is what I love to do the most. If I could, I would go out there every single day of my life and take pictures of the world around me. But there is still one t...

17 June, 2022

The Game Called ISO – Taking Advantage of the EV System for Better Results – By Vlad Serebryany

By Vlad Serebryany

For as long as I was shooting film, I have had the same nagging problem: I wanted to shoot in the dark. My Dad - who gave me my first and his only camera Zorkiy with 3.5/50 mm I...

13 June, 2022

Digital Negatives – The Power of CHDK on Canon Powershots – By Sean Benham

By Sean Benham

Film has always been the standard I measure against on the quality and color of digital imagery. The texture of grain with higher ISO, the colors rendered from the film -- these...

6 June, 2022

Hiking the Uncanny Valley – By Don Goodman-Wilson

By Don Goodman-Wilson

When creating the above image, I sought a very specific aesthetic, one informed by years of enjoying video games. Indeed, friends have told me they thought this image was a high...

30 May, 2022

How Many Cameras to Take on Holiday? – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Well, is this a first-world problem or what! Not only are we talking about going on vacation, but also about the "problem" of choosing between multiple cameras for said vacation...

15 May, 2022

1 Sunset, 2 Mediums, 4 Cameras – By Charlie Bierwirth

By Charlie Bierwirth

In the digital world we live in, many people ask "why film?". It's something I asked myself when I first started this great hobby just three years ago. Once I started shooting f...

10 May, 2022

Shooting Gigs – Pushing The Boundaries of B&W Film – By Tom Schulte

By Tom Schulte

I might say, pushing the boundaries of film in this case is more like returning to its roots. When rock ‘n roll and hard bop burst through the famed and now widely regarded as ...

Huss on Rollei 35AF – My Love/Hate Relationship – Problems Encountered and Lessons Learned
Well at least get some solace that you didn’t spend $6000 on a new Leica M6 and then found out…
Scott Gitlin on Imago Absentia – A Portrait of the Absent
I so enjoyed your presentation . . . didn't want it to end. Pictures like these are doors to time-travelling.…
Fred Nelson on 5+1 frames with a Nikon F100 & Nikkor 50mm f/1.8g
film a nikon EM. with series E lenses ai ais. I have a nikon d7000 and use the manual focus…

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