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14 December, 2021

Breaking Digital Habits and Relearning Film With a Leica IIIf – By Christopher DellaCorte

By Christopher DellaCorte

This story begins with an afternoon drive through the local countryside accompanied by my spouse. The air was lovely and warm. The skies were clear. The weather was what we expe...

16 September, 2021

A Tale of Two Compacts – Emotion and Camera Choice – By Octavia Vans

By Octavia Vans

This article originally began its life as separate reviews of two different not-so-compact cameras. However at some point they merged into a comparison, and then evolved, like a...

27 August, 2021

Panasonic GF1 & 7Artisans 18mm – My Analog Point & Shoot Experience Digital Camera – By Frankie Bina

By Frankie Bina

I love the simplest point & shoot film cameras. Take a Holga or some cheap disposable/reusable model and just go enjoy shooting. They are so easy to use, so hard to master, so m...

2 August, 2021

Vintage Lenses in Cinema vs. Photography – Finding that “Secret Source”

By Hamish Gill

Not so long ago, Kosmo Foto reported on the fact that the latest Zack Snyder film, ‘Army of the Dead’ had been entirely shot with Canon 50mm 0.95 “dream” lenses. Reading that ar...

30 July, 2021

3 Canon Compacts Compared – ‘Supreme’ doesn’t mean Best – By David Hume

By David Hume

This is a follow-up piece to one I wrote here about what to look for when buying cheap compacts. In essence that was about the delights of $5 compacts with prime lenses, flash a...

22 July, 2021

Returning to Film with a Canon, a Nikon and a Touch of GAS – By Simon Rikowski

By Simon Rikowski

I got my first camera in 1966, it was a plasticky grey Ilford Sprite. I took mostly terrible photos on this little camera, but some were quite good, capturing the look of the ti...

19 July, 2021

‘Cool Retro Cameras’ – The Nikon Z Fc – Just ‘Cool’? Or Something More?

By Hamish Gill

I was asked the other day to share my thoughts on the ongoing retro camera design trend for an article that has since been published on Lifewire, titled ‘What’s with all these C...

8 July, 2021

Seeking Control through Simplifying the Digital Experience – By Vic Mortelmans

By Vic Mortelmans

I never bought a new camera in my whole life. In my teens I started taking pictures with my father's old Agfa Silette. Three speeds, manual focusing, no light meter, but setting...

Fred Nelson on 5+1 frames with a Nikon F100 & Nikkor 50mm f/1.8g
Zoltan: you hit the fog on the head. I'm in California and will be looking out for more fog pictures…
Geoff Chaplin on 5+1 frames with a Nikon F100 & Nikkor 50mm f/1.8g
Yes, abandoned houses have a strong draw. I entered one and got an antique sewing machine table, in another I…
Gary Smith on Finding the Best 126 Cartridge Camera – Part I
I'm sure that I must have shot an Instamatic camera at some point in the past but I'm pretty sure…

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