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16 September, 2021

A Tale of Two Compacts – Emotion and Camera Choice – By Octavia Vans

By Octavia Vans

This article originally began its life as separate reviews of two different not-so-compact cameras. However at some point they merged into a comparison, and then evolved, like a...

15 September, 2021

5 Frames With a Voigtländer Vitomatic I – Not Bought “for Display” – By Alex Vye

By Alex Vye

The Voigtländer Vitomatic I is a 35mm viewfinder camera that was produced between 1957 and 1960. The lens is a 50mm Colors-Skopar 1:2.8. F-stops are 2.8 to 22. Shutter is a Pro...

14 September, 2021

Aperture Zero 10. The Champ

By Merik

As was often the case, the Pipes Man had spent most of the morning smoking and creeping around places he probably shouldn’t be. However, it was rare he would be so well rewarded.

13 September, 2021

Tiffen Black Pro Mist Filter & Turning the 50mm ZM Sonnar “Atmosphere” up to 11

By Hamish Gill

Once in a while, someone asks me what my favourite lens is. For a long time now the answer has remained the same - it’s the Zeiss 50mm ZM Sonnar. This is a lens that has loads o...

12 September, 2021

Aperture Zero 09. Proper Etiquette

By Merik

‘Can I take your picture?’ He had been thinking, recently, to try to be a better person. To approach and engage, rather than sneak and snatch at his shots. This was Proper Etiqu...

11 September, 2021

The Birth of The NoColorStudio Experimental No.5 High Contrast Film – By Arnas Špaka

By Arnas Špaka

Greetings, I am Arnas Špaka, creator of NoColorStudio - an experimental initiative. My interest in photography started when I was a teenager and found my grandfather's old Zeni...

10 September, 2021

Aperture Zero 08. Toad

By Merik

The Pipes Man was fucking born to do it. The world’s forgotten boy; king of doing it. He just wasn’t doing it right now, and there wasn’t much to him aside. He was a flightless ...

10 September, 2021

Minolta TC-1 – On Loan and in Love – By Robert

By Robert_

A little while ago during the summer I organised a Beers and Cameras Photowalk through the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford. It was a really nice walk with a beautiful ...

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