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1 December, 2025

Relentless – A One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

1 December, 2025

/ Street & Urban Photography, /

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8 September, 2025

Contax 167MT – an outstanding, but overlooked tool

By Peter Schu

The design of the Contax 167MT is different from any other analog camera, other Contax cameras included. I purchased my Contax 167MT in 1992 and I have been using it since then....

7 September, 2025

A Question of a Question of Colour

By Derek Hope

While soaking up the streets of Montreal, I had been very excited to visit the Leica Boutique. I was eager to browse their collection and chew the fat about cameras with exotic ...

7 September, 2025

Camera scanning color negatives – some nerding and search for beauty

By Alexander Seidler

There is something fascinating and also strangely intangible to color negatives. I have been home developing C41 for 10 years and I tried lots of scanners, software and workflow...

6 September, 2025

Voigtlander Vito BL repair fail and GAS-fired workaround

By Simon Foale

Lee Miller could completely strip down her Rolleiflex ‘to the last nut and bolt’ and reassemble it in the dark ‘in some crummy billet’, according to her son, Antony Penrose. Thi...

6 September, 2025

Photographing a Mexican Cartel with a Fuji Instax Mini 12

By Henry Craver

Some background: I’m a photojournalist and a YouTuber. I covered migration and conflict for nearly six years across the Americas and Europe before starting the channel ‘Through ...

5 September, 2025

Slowly stumbling into large format

By Gary Smith

I’m beginning this article in early August 2025. I first started thinking about large format somewhere in 2024 and began watching various YouTube videos that covered the c...

5 September, 2025

Nons Instant Back – Is this a review…?

By Michael Morales

The Nons instant back has been out for a while now… so I’ll spare you the technical review, unboxing, and product photos. Instead I’d like to tell you why this product is perfec...

4 September, 2025

Solinon Optik 18mm f/5.6 ASPH Review & Super Wides are Not Just for Buildings

By Rollin Banderob

Super-wide lens’s promotional materials, reviews and forum posts seem to lean heavily to architectural and landscape images. That generally is not how I have used this cla...

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