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30 October, 2025

Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)

By John Bennett

30 October, 2025

/ Camera History, Leica III, Nikkor-s 5cm 1.4, /

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After our recent road trip, which included a night at the Hotel Finlen in Butte, Montana, and a chance to photograph the window where Robert Frank made one of the 83 images included in his landmark book, The Americans, I became mildly obsessed wit...

30 October, 2025

Printing Live: What I Learned from Sharing the Darkroom in Real Time

By Tom Warland

30 October, 2025

/ Darkroom Printing, /

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Ever since I first started photography, I’ve loved the darkroom. There have been times when I’ve drifted away from it – drawn in by the convenience of digital editing, whether from negatives or digital files – but I always find myself ...

30 October, 2025

5 Frames, some with the Bridge Turned into Shadow and Shape.

By Danilo Leonardi

30 October, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, Street & Urban Photography, /

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It sometimes seems as though every sunset has already been photographed. Most often, the image is of a landscape in the “golden hour,” a favourite of postcard pictures. Epic skies are often part of the same cliché, reflecting a very conventional “...

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22 August, 2024

5 Frames with a Widelux F7 at The Louvre

By Dan Cuny

Panoramic photography and the cameras that take them have always been one of my favorite kinds of photography. As your eyes see the world and your mind conveys the images, it...

Duncanville football receiver making a diving catch while closely guarded by opponents defensive backs

21 August, 2024

Friday Night Lights – The Catch – A One Shot Story

By Bill Brown

The year was 1981 and I had recently received a certificate of completion for a film processing and printing class at Mountain View Community College located in Dallas County. I...

21 August, 2024

Flaybrick Memorial Gardens

By John Greene

Originally from Liverpool I moved to Birkenhead in 1982. It took me 33 years before I discovered the charm of Flaybrick. It began when I came across a photograph of an angel on ...

Leica MA with 14405 Handgrip attached

20 August, 2024

Fixing the Leica 14405 handgrip for film cameras.

By MichaelWPlant

Recently I had a problem. I had acquired a newish nearly perfect Leica 14405 handgrip to use with my Leica MA. When it arrived, I was shocked at the state of the base. It origin...

A Leica IIIF camera with lens, leather case, yellow and orange lens filters, self-timer, tripod, and lens hood and associated Leica manuals.

20 August, 2024

Discovering some Photos Taken by my Grandfather with his Leica

By Theodore Crispino

In June 1952, my maternal grandparents embarked on a life-changing move Graz, Austria, from their home since WWII, to New York City. My grandmother, six months pregnant with my ...

The AGO Film Prcessor

19 August, 2024

AGO Film Processor – An honest review of Vintage Visual’s Film Processor

By Jeroen van Weert

For most film photographers, processing your own film can be intimidating. That’s why I was excited to try the AGO Film Processor. Here’s what I found in a nutshell:...

18 August, 2024

5 Frames of Kodak VISON3 5219T on a Leica M6 with Nokton 35mm F1.5 in Cantonese Opera Backstage

By David Wu

35mm is my favorite main focal length, the angle of view is not too big or too small for humanistic shots. The shots here were taken with the new 35mm f/1.5 large aperture lens ...

TLR Challenge Rolleicord Vb

17 August, 2024

The beginning of a TLR Challenge

By Geoff Chaplin

Like many other photographers it seems, I have problems with TLRs. It’s not that the format is new – I used to use a Hasselblad regularly for 5 years or so – and it’s not ...

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Paul Quellin on 5 Frames, some with the Bridge Turned into Shadow and Shape.
Very pleasing and evocative photographs to look at Danilo. I wondered if they might be very much of the place…
Michael Jardine on Printing Live: What I Learned from Sharing the Darkroom in Real Time
This is all wonderful. I persuaded myself to revive my darkroom practice during Covid lockdown days when I was indoors…
Michael Jardine on Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)
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