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A notorious website (which address I won’t mention) recently blamed a new cinema lens (which I also won’t name) for being almost unusable outside the centre of the f...
15 January, 2026
Europe’s second city, with a Yashica Mat 124G
We took the train for the 36 minute journey – a day trip would have been easy but we wanted to spend a few days away enjoying the food and local attractions. It was a pleasant 1...
15 January, 2026
Relearning Film – Notes from a Returning Shooter
I’m relearning 35mm film. I grew up shooting on film. I’m 55 now, so my first camera was around 1984, when I was sixteen: a Minolta X-700, which I still have. Getting back into ...
14 January, 2026
TTArtisan 75mm f/2 AF Lens Mini-review
Executive Summary: Buy it! If compact primes are your thing, you are going to love the TTArtisan 75mm f/2 AF lens. In case you missed it (like me), TTArtisan released this excel...
14 January, 2026
Pinhole Photography in Northwest New Mexico
I’m an Albuquerque-based photographer who has dabbled for years with not only film cameras but also paper negatives and pinhole cameras. Going back to the mid-1990s, I had set u...
13 January, 2026
Bringing an Helios 40-2 at the opera
At the end of the post about the test of a Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4 I concluded: “I didn’t miss more modern gear, and I didn’t lose a single shot because of the oddnes...
13 January, 2026
5 Frames with a classic SLR – Why I Chose the Nikon FE
I recently purchased a Nikon FE analog camera with a 50mm lens. Here’s the story behind it. So I decided to buy a new camera. You’d wonder why. Do I not own enough cameras as it...
12 January, 2026
I don’t shoot portraits – A one shot story
For most of my life as a photographer, I avoided portraits—especially of people I didn’t know. The idea of intruding, of asking permission to study someone closely, always felt ...
