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27 March, 2024

Give Broken Ones a Chance – Shooting a Damaged Leica CL

By Dave Powell

If you had spotted the above Leica CL film camera on eBay, it might have been described like this: USED LEICA CL (For Parts or Repair) The camera’s viewfinder is missing its fro...

13 March, 2024

A Note on the Concept of “Correct” Exposure

By Geoff Chaplin

“My camera just nails the exposure”. How often have you heard that or a similar comment from someone praising the technical abilities of their new digital camera? Bu...

28 February, 2024

Canon EOS A2 – An Odd Little GAS Journey.

By Eric

Why an odd GAS journey? I am glad that I imagined you asked. I recently wrote a post on my blog about me finally caving in and getting a Vintage Digital (Disclaimer: “Vint...

13 February, 2024

Pentax – In Praise of Usability of Cameras and Lenses

By Andrea Monti

The Internet is full of columns and videos about why ‘I left brand X for brand Y’, magnifiying this or that ‘new feature’ that forced a photographer to d...

31 January, 2024

Traveling. Light? 4 days, 4 Cameras

By Bradley Newman

My wife’s cousin invited us to her wedding at an all-inclusive resort in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I figured this might be a good opportunity for some fun photography, so I start...

26 December, 2023

Life-like Finders and Photo-like Finders Part 1: The L–P spectrum

By Sroyon

“The camera is just a light-tight box.” If you spend time on photography websites and forums, you’ve probably encountered this dictum before – often as an admo...

24 December, 2023

A Bout of GAS, and a Rediscovered Pentax Q7

By Hamish Gill

I took my Pentax Q7 for a couple of Christmassy evenings out in town with the kids in the run up to Christmas. I took it out because it ended up finding its way to being the clo...

14 December, 2023

Agfa Copex Rapid developed in H&W Control

By Simon Foale

The tantalising mysteries of microfilms (AKA ‘copy’ or ‘document’ films) grabbed my attention almost as soon as I re-entered the world of film a few short years ago, precipitate...

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Tomasz Kowalski on Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI
That's a re-assuring response regarding the wider AI debate - I'm very glad you wrote up the extra note on…
davesurrey on Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI
Andrei, Thanks for this super interesting article. I assume you were using ChatGPT. If so did you try any others…
John Hillyer on Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax
Great set of photos Ibraar, lovely colours.

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