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© Phil Maxwell, The Kiss, Brick Lane Laundrette, early 1980s. Shot on an Olympus XA2.

26 June, 2026

Phil Maxwell, the Olympus XA2, and the Street as Theatre

By Shafiur Rahman

26 June, 2026

/ Camera Theory, Olympus XA2, Phil Maxwell, /

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15 March, 2026

Carl Zeiss Ultron 50mm 1.8 and Pentax K1 – An Empirical Field Test

By Andrea Monti

Across this set, the Carl Zeiss Ultron 50mm 1.8 performs as expected: good microcontrast and local separation, reasonably crisp edge definition where focus is placed, and a gene...

14 March, 2026

Squares vs. Rectangles in Photography

By David Pauley

My photographic archive, viewed from a certain altitude, resembles nothing more than a collection of rectangles and squares. The rectangles come from my 35mm cameras, while the ...

Old wooden structure on the shore of the Solway Firth, Cumbria, England

13 March, 2026

Twelve Months of 4×5 – A One Shot Story

By Ryan Galea

This is a one shot start to the story, so to speak… it’s of an Old wooden structure on the shore of the Solway Firth, Cumbria, England taken with an Arca Swiss 4×5 Ca...

13 March, 2026

5 lenses for the Nikonos amphibious cameras compared

By Adrian Riu

The Nikonos are a series of amphibious cameras that Nikon developed starting in the early 1960’s and discontinued in 2001. There were five models (the original, based on t...

12 March, 2026

A Bazaar Moment – A One-Shot Story

By Martin H

This photograph was taken about 45 years ago, when I was in my late teens. I’ve shown it before as part of a larger article featuring several images from the bazaar. While it ma...

12 March, 2026

Shout out for help – 35mmc images

By Hamish Gill

We are doing a load of work on the site at the moment – mostly around a new ad supplier, but we are also offloading the image hosting to an external provider. The ad stuff...

12 March, 2026

Fuji TX-2 – Cornwall Once upon a Time – Seeing Panoramic Part III

By Ibraar Hussain

Part III of my “Seeing Panoramic” series. You can see Part I which features this same Fujifilm TX-2 Xpan) I went to Cornwall once (Kernow in Cornish –Baner Peran) . It was...

11 March, 2026

Why Do (Photo)books Matter

By Andrea Monti

Throughout my professional career, I have written and edited several books. Initially, I was neither involved in nor interested in the manufacturing part of the process. Once th...

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