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19 December, 2024

A Night at the Opera – Plays and Opera Photography

By Andrea Monti

This is an abbreviated version of a talk I gave to a local chapter of the Italian Federation of Amateur Photographers (FIAF) on the challenges of photographing in a Teatro all&#...

19 December, 2024

5 frames with a Nikon F4S

By Alastair Griffiths

For a ‘Full Frame’ camera it is quite heavy. Certainly big, dwarfing my Ricoh KR10 from 1980. But without doubt it’s absolutely gorgeous. In a way it is alm...

18 December, 2024

Viltrox AF 35mm 1.7 Z DX – A new nifty fifty prime lens for the Nikon DX system

By Mike Brooks

If you grew up in the analogue age, chances are your first 35mm camera came with a fifty millimeter “kit” lens. These “nifty 50s” were reasonably sma...

18 December, 2024

Agfa Ambi Silette – First Roll Reflections

By Bob Israel

During a recent visit to a favorite antique store, I went to my favorite display case which were filled with cameras. One never knows what will be there and so it’s fun to...

17 December, 2024

Canon AE-1 on the Coastline of Montenegro

By James P

A road trip through Montenegro is a must. In June I was lucky enough to spend 5 days with my partner enjoying some of the Montenegro coastline equipped with my Canon AE-1. All m...

17 December, 2024

10 Shots from the Toronto Skate Scene

By David Smith

All photographers can ultimately be divided into two categories: the hip or the lame. The former, for example, includes grizzled, chain-smoking photojournalists wearing bullet-r...

16 December, 2024

Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)

By Andrea Monti

What do these pictures have in common (apart from having been taken in various places in Japan)? No, they don’t have the same look and feel, composition or use of light, n...

16 December, 2024

Samyang Remaster Slim – a 3-for-1 Pancake Lens Review

By Hamish Gill

The Samyang Remaster Slim is possibly one of the most unusual lenses I have reviewed on this website – it’s a lens that I was more intrigued by than a great deal of...

Alan Gauld on 5 Frames from a Braun Paxina 29 – a mid 1950s “compact” camera.
It may well be camera movement because I was trying to use my tripod(that I had for my digital camera)…
Alan Gauld on 5 Frames from a Braun Paxina 29 – a mid 1950s “compact” camera.
Yes, I was surprised that the last frame was so soft, given it was at the highest speed. I hadn't…
Keith Drysdale on 5 Frames from a Braun Paxina 29 – a mid 1950s “compact” camera.
It's a shame that you didn't get the results you hoped for. I wonder if on the last shot the…

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