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22 April, 2026

7Artisans 35mm f/2.8 Ultra-Compact Rangefinder Lens Review

By Alexander Doran

22 April, 2026

/ 35mm Lens, 7Artisans 35mm f/2.8, Rangefinder Lens, Wide-Angle Lens, /

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Released today (22nd of April 2026), the new 7Artisans 35mm f/2.8 lens occupies a poorly-explored niche in the modern era; that of the sharp, ultra-compact prime lens. And believe me, despite its few limitations it absolutely delivers, especially ...

22 April, 2026

What the Lever Opened – One Shot Story

By Josh Baker

22 April, 2026

/ Double Exposure, Kodak Double-X, Nikon FM2n, /

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This is not who I was allowed to be. Circumstances in my past lives built boundaries around the innermost states that contained freedom. Vulnerability. They inhibited stepping outside of the identity I constructed. I was produced to be formal, ser...

LeRouge 612 panorama pinhole camera for 120 film

22 April, 2026

LeRouge 612 MK2 – Portable Panoramic Pinhole – Why Barnack would have approved of it

By Jens Kotlenga

22 April, 2026

/ LeRouge 612 MK2, Panoramic Camera, Pinhole Cameras, /

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So there was this guy who took it upon himself to hike from the Atlantic Ocean all the way down to the Mediterranean, following the Pyrenean long-distance mountain trail, all of 850 kilometres in 48 days. In his backpack he had made room for a pan...

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15 March, 2026

Carl Zeiss Ultron 50mm 1.8 and Pentax K1 – An Empirical Field Test

By Andrea Monti

Across this set, the Carl Zeiss Ultron 50mm 1.8 performs as expected: good microcontrast and local separation, reasonably crisp edge definition where focus is placed, and a gene...

14 March, 2026

Squares vs. Rectangles in Photography

By David Pauley

My photographic archive, viewed from a certain altitude, resembles nothing more than a collection of rectangles and squares. The rectangles come from my 35mm cameras, while the ...

Old wooden structure on the shore of the Solway Firth, Cumbria, England

13 March, 2026

Twelve Months of 4×5 – A One Shot Story

By Ryan Galea

This is a one shot start to the story, so to speak… it’s of an Old wooden structure on the shore of the Solway Firth, Cumbria, England taken with an Arca Swiss 4×5 Ca...

13 March, 2026

5 lenses for the Nikonos amphibious cameras compared

By Adrian Riu

The Nikonos are a series of amphibious cameras that Nikon developed starting in the early 1960’s and discontinued in 2001. There were five models (the original, based on t...

12 March, 2026

A Bazaar Moment – A One-Shot Story

By Martin H

This photograph was taken about 45 years ago, when I was in my late teens. I’ve shown it before as part of a larger article featuring several images from the bazaar. While it ma...

12 March, 2026

Shout out for help – 35mmc images

By Hamish Gill

We are doing a load of work on the site at the moment – mostly around a new ad supplier, but we are also offloading the image hosting to an external provider. The ad stuff...

12 March, 2026

Fuji TX-2 – Cornwall Once upon a Time – Seeing Panoramic Part III

By Ibraar Hussain

Part III of my “Seeing Panoramic” series. You can see Part I which features this same Fujifilm TX-2 Xpan) I went to Cornwall once (Kernow in Cornish –Baner Peran) . It was...

11 March, 2026

Why Do (Photo)books Matter

By Andrea Monti

Throughout my professional career, I have written and edited several books. Initially, I was neither involved in nor interested in the manufacturing part of the process. Once th...

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Russ Rosener on What the Lever Opened – One Shot Story
This technique is a favorite of mine. And yes it's pretty cool Nikon built that into the FM2 series. It…
Tony Warren on LeRouge 612 MK2 – Portable Panoramic Pinhole – Why Barnack would have approved of it
Those are excellent results from a very nicely made camera Jens. It is interesting that it has a 0,25mm pinhole.…
Michael on Leica-R Summicron 50/2 on Nikon F3
Thanks for sharing this conversation and the photos. I've compared digital shots from my Nikon 50mm f/1.4 AIS with my…

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