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29 June, 2024

One camera, One Lens – Testing the Photo Adage in Japan

By Floyd

Photography is chock full of sayings, adages, call them what you will. F8 and be there. Sunny 16. Most are grounded in some reality. But the one that I think has some applicatio...

22 June, 2024

In praise of ‘cheap’ lenses for ‘pro’ works

By Andrea Monti

I have recently discovered Viltrox, a Chinese manufacturer of lenses for the Fujifilm X-system. I am using the AF 85/1,8 II XF and the AF 56/1,4 XF and I am very satisfied by th...

Close up of Canon AE-1 35mm camera on desk

19 June, 2024

My First Five Rolls of Film (Ever)

By William Ryan

I didn’t mean to get into shooting film. It was never my plan, never something I set out to do. I certainly had no idea that the format was becoming popular again, or mor...

13 June, 2024

On Composition – Or: the eye sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend

By Andrea Monti

This shot, taken during the Italian Road Running National Championships, is a fair application of the French philosopher Henri Bergson aphorism to composition: the eye sees what...

11 June, 2024

What does it take to be a Photographer?

By Tony Warren

In photography’s infancy, the mark of a photographer was black fingers from contact with the chemicals used (and probably a pale complexion). In the later 20th century, a...

31 May, 2024

Seeing in Black and White

By Geoff Chaplin

I was photographing in colour for over 50 years. Occasionally I’d put a B&W film in the camera but I was still photographing in colour, there just happened to be B&am...

28 May, 2024

Expired Film – My Hows and Whys

By David Hume

I’m writing this because expired film generates a fair bit of internet interest and chatter. It’s also something with which I have reasonable experience and I ...

22 May, 2024

Some of my thoughts and experiences with Point & Shoots

By David Tan

Living in Japan has been a privilege in many ways – cheap and healthy convenience store meals, decent coffee for a dollar, interesting scenery, and for folks like us ...

Keith Drysdale on A New Obsession – Analog Photography – A One Shot Story
That's a lovely shot. My advice is just keep shooting with this camera until you are confident that you will…
Thomas Wolstenholme on Fuji X-Pro3 – 5 years on – Extended Thoughts and my Dream Lens
The Fringer permits autofocus, auto-exposure, EXIF and even the VR of the lens to function. I've even used it once…
Keith Drysdale on Pentax Zoom 60 Auto – Thoughts from a 3rd roll
My recent exploits of shooting zoom compacts of the late 80s and 90s have led to the same conclusions. These…

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