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22 December, 2025

The Immediate, the Medium, the Media & the Median.

By Peter Ots

22 December, 2025

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In 2013, Impossible Project first teased — and then actually delivered — a miracle device: the Instant Lab, which printed onto Polaroid film. Reviews and press coverage savored the new possibility of turning digital shots into “real” prints, and i...

22 December, 2025

A Morning in Snow – My photo of the year 2025

By Curtis Heikkinen

22 December, 2025

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I can’t really pick one particular image as a favorite since I take thousands in a typical year. But I can say this is a representative example of the kind of image I am most proud of. It was a bitterly cold February morning when I hiked to the ...

Viltrox 85mm f/2 evo Nikon Zf

22 December, 2025

Viltrox 85mm f/2 Evo Review – A perfect balance of compromise for me!

By Hamish Gill

22 December, 2025

/ 85mm Lens, Mirrorless Lens, Telephoto Lens, Viltrox 85mm 2.0 evo, Viltrox Lens, /

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The Viltrox 85mm f/2 Evo is the lens I wished I was reviewing when I was writing about their 85mm 1.8. I really liked that lens, but there was something about its bokeh, its larger size and the lack of aperture control that combined to just put me...

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7 November, 2024

Polachrome Polapan CT – A short-lived introduction from Polaroid

By Tony Warren

Some thoughts on a short lived Polaroid film from the 1980s.

Girl feeding calf

7 November, 2024

Approaching Reportage Photography

By Rollin Banderob

I’ll soon be self-publishing these images in my first photobook and with the closing of this project I was thinking back on what I have learned over the years on approaching rep...

A monument depicting a soldier holding a rifle and bayonet.

7 November, 2024

People’s Park Chengdu with an Olympus XA3 and expired Rollei RPX 400

By Howard Mitchell

I’m lucky enough to be able to spend a couple of months in Chengdu, China each year as part of my job and usually stay in the central part of town. I take a different film camer...

6 November, 2024

Shooting a Roller Derby Bout

By Andrea Monti

Of all the disciplines at the 2024 World Skate Games, which took place in Italy last September, roller derby is probably one of the lesser known, but also one of the most diffic...

Photo of front of Rollei XF 35

6 November, 2024

Rollei XF 35 – First Impressions

By Sebastian Shields

I ran into this camera almost by accident. I was meandering through a vinyl record and camera store* and saw the small Rollei XF 35 hiding in a glass counter next to the registe...

5 November, 2024

Stray or street dogs of Istanbul – One-Shot Story

By Cem Eren

About 10 years ago, while I was questioning about the nature of the streets, I asked myself, who owns these public places. The question has the answer, I hear you. The definitio...

Seidler ME with Ricoh GR 28/2.8

5 November, 2024

My Square Story – Making my own 24×24 35mm Cameras

By Alexander Seidler

It is a long story. Longer than I expected. Yes – I didn’t expect anything but learning to frame and playing with a different aspect ratio. It is also story of Gear – DIY ...

Tamachi Tokyo

4 November, 2024

TLR Challenge: 3 – Night Shots

By Geoff Chaplin

With an appointment nearby at 7pm and having arrived in the area at 6:15 I had about 40 minutes to shoot the third film of the day that I had promised myself I would take. With ...

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