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10 January, 2026

Ceci N’Est Pas Une Junior (or, Cognitive Dissonance – Part Two)

By Andrea Monti

10 January, 2026

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28 October, 2025

Unique Mountain Rescue Training Hall near Munich – and my Ricoh GR III Impressions

By Jens

As both a physician and an enthusiastic amateur photographer, my visit in May 2025 to the training hall of the mountain rescue service in Bad Tölz/Gaißach, about 50 km south of ...

28 October, 2025

My Introduction to Film Photography

By Randy Castillo

My introduction into photography began many years ago around 2015 or 2016 with a Sony digital a5000. A small compact APS-C camera I purchased from Best Buy for a whopping $400! ...

28 October, 2025

There’s more to the garden than the BBQ – A tale of four cameras and a deadly ladder.

By Simon Bohrsmann

Don’t get me wrong, I love my BBQ. In the summer it smokes and sizzles with all kinds of marinated goodies getting a good char. But a garden needs cheer as well, and that ...

27 October, 2025

My Favorite Photo of 2025?

By David Pauley

As I write these words it is mid-September, with almost a third of 2025 yet to go, yet I’m nonetheless fairly certain that the image above will turn out to be my favorite ...

27 October, 2025

Leica vs Leica – M vs R cameras & lenses and thoughts on Rangefinders & SLRs

By Scott Ferguson

If someone handed you two high end cameras — a rangefinder and an SLR — which would you pick up first? Which would you end up sticking with as your ‘when in...

27 October, 2025

Viltrox 85mm 1.8 STM II (Nikon Z Mount) Review

By Hamish Gill

I don’t review modern autofocus lenses all that often, but recently – for reasons I will come to in a moment – I have begun to find them increasingly interesting. Ac...

26 October, 2025

Mamiya-6 Automat – GAS ATTACK!!!

By Geoff Chaplin

The following stand accused of leading me into temptation (but I’ve already forgiven them all, it’s really my own fault!): primary accused DANAI for writing such a compelling ar...

26 October, 2025

Coney Island with A Tele-Rolleiflex

By David Pauley

A flattened, sandy oval pressed like a wad of gum into Brooklyn’s ample instep, Coney Island has been a draw for photographers for as long as the medium has existed. Altho...

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