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24 September, 2020

The Wet Side – My Early Career in NYC Darkrooms – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

Working as a photographer’s assistant, especially for fashion photographers, got old fast. The first job I had was for a guy, let’s call him Tasso, who turned out to be a… well,...

31 August, 2020

Searching for Relevant Difference in a Digital Commercial World – By Tim Cole

By Tim Cole

I’ve often struggled with the digital age, the chase for visual perfection. Always feeling behind the curve. Hounded constantly by camera brand marketing, ‘to be a great photogr...

24 August, 2020

Film Photography – A Realisation That Cheap Thrills Can Still Be Had!

By Hamish Gill

As with a lot of my articles, the reason I’m writing this is to solidify an idea in my head. That idea is that I have become a bit of a snob, that I’ve lost touch with something...

12 August, 2020

Artefacts of a Laboratory – Adapting an enlarging lens to a Sony DSLR – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

This story began when a few days ago I looked for the entry “Photography” in the well-known DUDEN thematic dictionary (Bildwörterbush of Duden - Leipzig 1940 - also published in...

2 August, 2020

It’s All Done with Mirrors – A Tale of a Telescope Street Photo – By Tom Ace

By Tom Ace

The 1960s and '70s were good times for hobbyists in the USA. Chemicals, electronic parts, and optical supplies were widely available - in some ways more so than they are today. ...

27 July, 2020

pixl-much-latr – delivering on a Kickstarter 22 months behind schedule

By Hamish Gill

I’ve just started shipping pixl-latr - a product I launched on Kickstarter in June 2018 with an expected delivery date of September the same year. In short, I’m 22 months behind...

22 July, 2020

Limiting and Reflecting on my Digital Output – by Simon King

By Simon King

Before the widespread use of recorded sound, if you were a music aficionado with a favored piece of baroque music you would be lucky if you heard it more than a handful of times...

21 July, 2020

About the value of my (and your?) photography – By Benoît Felten

By Ben Felten

This article has been a long time coming. Ever since I watched the video that Hamish published in late February this year, this topic has been buzzing on and off around my brain...

Sroyon on NEWS: Godox Launches the Powerful New V100 Camera Flash
Pretty much every day?! Wow that's a lot of use! I've been using a Godox V1 Pro (but not as…
Kohtli (Co - tlee) on Petri Color 35 – A Love Letter to a favourite camera
Thanks for the info, I did not know this, and it makes sense given how pocketable it is. By comparison…
Kohtli (Co - tlee) on Petri Color 35 – A Love Letter to a favourite camera
Thanks for the kind words! This camera absolutely feels like an extension of myself at this point.

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