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16 May, 2026

One More “Robert Frank in Butte, Montana” Story

By John Bennett

16 May, 2026

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

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14 June, 2024

Modifying and Shooting a Sprocket Rocket in Oxford

By Charles Higham

This project aimed to improve the quality of the images produced by the Lomography Sprocket Rocket. The Sprocket Rocket is a plastic camera designed to achieve and does deliver ...

14 June, 2024

Adox CMS 20 II Pro – My First Roll

By Tony Warren

Adox describe their CMS 20II Pro film as “an orthopanchromatic and ultra-high resolution film based on silver halide material” and “the highest resolution, sharpest fine-grain f...

13 June, 2024

On Composition – Or: the eye sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend

By Andrea Monti

This shot, taken during the Italian Road Running National Championships, is a fair application of the French philosopher Henri Bergson aphorism to composition: the eye sees what...

13 June, 2024

Grain, Glorious Grain! – T-Max 3200 pushed to 6400

By Denis Lafrance

Ever since I started photography, when digital was not even a dream, I always love the effect of film grain. It always felt as if it was made by an artist, albeit a chemical one...

12 June, 2024

How to (Unconventionally) Shoot Track and Field Competitions

By Andrea Monti

Having been given a LOC pass for the European Athletics Championships currently taking place in Rome, I was able to practice unusual compositions in sports photography. Usually,...

Projection of light from a modified 50mm lens

12 June, 2024

Converting a 50mm lens meant for 35mm film to large format

By Jim Skelton

I’ve often observed from afar large format photographers esoterically divining their cameras and producing photos that my 35mm camera could only dream about. But I was lar...

11 June, 2024

Cleaning a Classic Canon f/1.2 LTM Lens

By Dave Powell

A while back, I snagged a beautiful Canon VI-T rangefinder camera for small bucks at a yard sale. It’s probably as close as I’ll ever come to owning a classic Leica. But it had ...

11 June, 2024

What does it take to be a Photographer?

By Tony Warren

In photography’s infancy, the mark of a photographer was black fingers from contact with the chemicals used (and probably a pale complexion). In the later 20th century, a kind o...

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RichardH on One More “Robert Frank in Butte, Montana” Story
Thank you for posting this, John. This is a fine piece of work. Your photos bring out the gritty patina…
Tony Warren on Pairings, pt. 1 — Leica Summarit 50mm f1.5 + Rollei Blackbird
Hi Scott. I have just finished a review of this film and I found, like you that it gives sharper…
John Bennett on One More “Robert Frank in Butte, Montana” Story
Thank you, Gus. "Sunny" photography is tough for me, so I appreciate your comment all the more.

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