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20 July, 2020

Death in the Camera Store / Learning to See On the Other Side of Fear – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

I am standing with my fingers knitted together, resting on the top of my head. A few feet away, there is a gun pointed at my face, and I'm trying like I've never tried anything ...

18 July, 2020

The Yashica 124G and How it Helped Me Get Married – by Sacha Cloutier

By Sacha Cloutier

Like many people, my experience with photography started before a digital alternative existed. We remember that time, when most people didn’t have a cell phone and most pictures...

16 July, 2020

Help! I am being held prisoner in a lens collection! – By Jonathan Leavitt

By Jonathan Leavitt

There are few things more frustrating to a photographer than being forced to stay home while museums, restaurants and parks are closed, unless you are really into still life, wh...

7 July, 2020

4 Decades of Panoramas – Analogue & Digital – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

In 1977 I abandoned the 110 format and bought the Pentax ME camera with its 50mm lens, it had insufficient angle for the panoramas I wanted to photograph, so I bought the Pentax...

1 July, 2020

Olympus XA and other Compacts – Rediscovering Old Flames – By Alan Reich

By Alan Reich

I currently live in London UK, but some years ago I lived in the Middle East working as a journalist. I have a life long habit of street photography and have had many iterations...

29 June, 2020

It’s Not all Serendipity – An Interview with Sandy Phimester

By Hamish Gill

I've been following Sandy Phimester's work for a number of years now - I'd go as far as to say that he's one of the photographers whose work I admire the most. The funny thing i...

28 June, 2020

A Few Words In Praise of Humble 50mm Lens – By Andy Larner

By Andy Larner

It’s the one that comes with the camera, it’s the 'nifty fifty' and the bog standard prime lense everyone has included in the pack that’s so quickly forgotten and replaced by fa...

22 June, 2020

Enjoying Some Pentax SLR Gear Acquisition Syndrome

By Hamish Gill

I’ve had a bit of Pentax SLR GAS recently. I’m not going to try and sugarcoat it, the reality is, I’ve just let myself fall into the trap of buying kit to solve a problem I don’...

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