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10 December, 2025

Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4 – A Demanding Use Case

By Andrea Monti

10 December, 2025

/ Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4, /

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For shooting Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at Teatro Marrucino, I took a Carl Zeiss Jena 135/4 lens as a backup for long shots. Master Adriano Lolli replaced the original Contax mount with a Fuji X mount, saving me from the inconvenience o...

10 December, 2025

Predator Or Vampire: A Revision of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

By Andrea Monti

10 December, 2025

/ Fuji X-T5, Stage Performance Photography, /

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Yesterday night I was on the (back)stage of Teatro Marrucino for the premiere of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as always in my capacity of official photographer, with the goal of documenting the event for the theatre’s photographic library. I have ...

Singapore's Tiong Bahru Neighborhood

10 December, 2025

A Stroll Through Singapore’s Tiong Bahru Neighborhood with a roll of Kodak Double-X

By Danai

10 December, 2025

/ Contax T, Kodak Double-X, travel photography, /

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It was the last day of my trip to Singapore for a conference, and I was hoping to make the most of it photographically. After being stuck indoors for the past couple of days, I was eager to get out and explore. I’ve visited Singapore many times an...

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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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4 September, 2025

Capturing Nova Scotia on Film

By David Smith

When I was 21, my parents moved from the hard-hitting, nickel-mining city of Sudbury, Ontario, to the quaint touristy town of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. With little hesitation, I ...

3 September, 2025

5 Frames in Waco, Texas with a Pentax K1000

By Tibra Ali

I spent several years after my PhD working for Baylor University in Waco, Texas; First as a post-doc and then as a lecturer at the Physics Department. Waco is a mid-sized but qu...

3 September, 2025

‘One Third Keepers’ with a Minolta 9000 and Kentmere Pan 200

By Bob Janes

The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...

2 September, 2025

Me and a Fish (Circa 1960) – A One Shot Story

By Curtis Heikkinen

One of my most vivid memories of growing up on Twenty Mile Stream Road in Proctorsville, Vermont, is of pulling that brook trout out of the small brook that flowed in back of ou...

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2 September, 2025

5 frames in Switzerland with a MINOX 35 GT and Silbersalz 35 500T

By PASCAL

I am a French electronics engineer, having spent most of my career in information systems. Now retired, I have more time to devote to photographic hobbies. I started photography...

1 September, 2025

Portraits of Sabrina – An Exercise in Photographic Therapy

By Derek Hope

It’s 1125BC; King Locrinus is King of the Britons. His wife, Gwendolen had learned her husband’s infidelity, of the illegitimate daughter born of Germanic Princess Estrild...

1 September, 2025

Fuji STX-2 and the X-mount bayonet cul-de-sac

By Bob Janes

Fuji Photo Film started up in the 1930s producing film and photographic material. They grew to be Japan’s largest film producer. Along the way, they made a series of cameras, ai...

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