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Image of our prototype light meter watch in front of a camera

12 April, 2026

Why being bad at photography led me to create the world’s first digital ‘light meter watch’

By Richard Soler

12 April, 2026

/ Kickstarter, Light Meter, watch, /

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Accidental multiple exposures. Yorkshire, 2013

18 March, 2025

Remembering an old, broken camera.

By Simon Helm

More than a decade ago, and I remember this as though it were yesterday, I was sitting in a North London pub waiting for my girlfriend to arrive. I had been taking photos with d...

17 March, 2025

Our Annual Brean Day with my Leica CL, Omnar Pantessa FLB and Ilford XP2

By Hamish Gill

As a family we go to Brean beach once a year in the winter. It’s become something of a tradition. It’s actually become one of my favourite family traditions, purely for how simp...

17 March, 2025

Sony SLT-A77 – hybrid mirrorless/DSLR with Minolta history

By Sean Benham

Several years ago, I purchased a Minolta Maxxum 7000 at a garage sale for $15, which came with a Sigma UC 28-70mm zoom. I had wanted to shoot with one for years. Its history is ...

16 March, 2025

First Men on the Moon: A hand made, hand bound photobook

By Nik Stanbridge

I’ve created and published quite a few photobooks in the past but I’ve always wanted to make the process easier, cheaper, quicker and much more predictable and repeatable. All t...

15 March, 2025

One Shot Story of Three Guys in a Field, Somewhere in Scotland

By Benjamin Amberg

I have no idea who these guys are… and I spent a week with them in Scotland on a brand trip sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin during the summer of 2019. A “brand trip” like this is in...

14 March, 2025

Pinhole Photography – Another Challenge!!

By Geoff Chaplin

I got started with a spare body cap; drill hole in centre; tape a laser drilled pinhole over the hole (cost about 10$/£/€). Simple. Any idiot can do it – even me. If you are usi...

The LD Meter mounted of the cold shoe of a Leica M4-P, viewed from the behind, and above with the screen illuminated.

14 March, 2025

L.D. Meter from CHI Review – A shoe mount light meter with a useful little laser.

By James Greenoff-Cairns

First, I shall set the scene: My name is James and I can’t zone focus. It feels good to get that off my chest. I been a photographer for a while now, I take it pretty seriously ...

13 March, 2025

One Negroni, One Shot, One Story

By Benjamin Amberg

Oregon, fall 2020. A fiery sunset in the distance caused by west coast wildfires. A global pandemic still running rampant. Lockdowns and a curfew in full effect. The sun making ...

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