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11 December, 2022

The Humble Strap: From Shoelace to Salvation – By Tim Snow

By Tim Snow

The epitome of simplicity; it’s a strap. It attaches to your camera to help you suspend it from your shoulder or neck to keep your hands free to drink tea. To help avoid acciden...

29 September, 2022

For Quick Film Scans, Try an Olympus C-8080WZ!

By Dave Powell

An old friend recently asked if I could digitize some 35mm slides of a coastal Maine motel her family once owned. She’d researched the commercial cost of scanning, and before bi...

24 September, 2022

Some Rolling-Shutter Fun… From a Moving Bus – By Dave Powell

By Dave Powell

The proverb “Necessity is the mother of invention” is credited to philosophers going back to Plato. But a modern paraphrase claims that boredom is another mother of invention. I...

21 September, 2022

Foveon Color and Infrared Black & White Back to Back Comparison w/ SIGMA dp2 Quattro and sd Quattro – By Eric L. Woods

By Eric

When not shooting film I really enjoy using SIGMA's Quattro cameras. Have had and still have other more conventional digital solutions, but I really like these oddball offerings...

22 August, 2022

AE-1 vs. OM4 – A Viable Alternative to Usual Recommendations – By Michael Allan-Wood

By Michael Allan-Wood

It’s no secret that film has had a significant revival throughout the chaos that was, and still is, COVID-19. Isolation, forced or otherwise, has caused many to take to new hobb...

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...

Peter Kornaukhov on A Castle You Say?
Shots are amazing. Have to teach a lot to use such camera, Yashica D i mean. Tri-X is an old…
Ben Garcia on The Wider View – learning to create panoramic images
Fantastic! I've always wanted to experiemnt with these cameras. I'm currently into 6x12 but I'm always considering a true panoramic…
Peter Roberts on Tripcock Ness – A One Shot Story
Thanks very much Paul. It's one of those places with an atmosphere that oozes history. I'm pleased I brought it…

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