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20 November, 2025

5 Frames with a Braun Super Paxette using Dragon No.1 film

By Alastair Bell

20 November, 2025

/ braun Rangefinder, Braun Super Paxette, rangefinder camera, /

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5 August, 2024

Leica CL – A Vindication

By Gustavo Toris

Born from a collaboration between Leitz and Minolta, the Leica CL was introduced in 1973 as a premium compact rangefinder camera with a 40mm Summicron lens as well as a 90mm f4,...

4 August, 2024

5 Frames of Iceland (on Portra 400 and HP5+)

By Terry Tsang

I’ve been trying to write this for over seven months, yet I can still remember the trip quite vividly. In November 2023, my wife and I were planning a trip to Iceland after a ra...

3 August, 2024

A Few Musing on Theatre Photography

By Andrea Monti

Over the years I have photographed a fair amount of theatre works – opera, concerts, prose – but I have never really analysed what was happening while I was shooting...

2 August, 2024

5 Frames Around the University of Minnesota

By Kevin Ealain

My first camera was a Minolta x-370. It was actually my mother’s camera. I shot that camera with reckless abandon from my teens well into my twenties. My eventual wife enc...

2 August, 2024

5 Frames with a Voigtlander Bessa L – Broken in Just the Right Way

By David Tan

I have always been fascinated by rangefinder cameras. Their namesake’s original application around the turn of the 19th century in naval gunnery had piqued my interest at first ...

1 August, 2024

Ghost Town Photography in Colorado

By lance mcfee

Want to know a little bit about one of Colorado’s biggest mining towns in the mid 1800’s that is now a ghost town? On the outskirts of a casino town of Black Hawk, t...

Mamiya 7 with 43mm lens and finder and Hasselblad SWC on a small tripod.

1 August, 2024

Hasselblad SWC vs. Mamiya 7 with 43mm lens – A Personal Wide-Angle Medium Format Showdown

By Andrew

A few years ago I came to own both a Hasselblad SWC and a Mamiya 7 with a 43mm lens. Both cameras are medium format cameras with very wide-angle lenses. I have long tried to mai...

31 July, 2024

A Few of my Stereo .GIFs

By Tony Warren

After reading and commenting on the recent post How to Take a 3-D photo with Almost Any Camera I looked out some examples of the .GIFs I had produced. These give a 3-D effect in...

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