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2 November, 2025

My (Brief) Life as a Documentary Photographer

By Jeremy Rata

2 November, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, Reflecting on the past, /

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5 July, 2019

Asahi Pentax 24mm f/3.5 Super-Multi-Coated Takumar Review

By Teddy

There’s a certain joy that comes from handling vintage lenses. Whether it’s the well-defined movement of the focus ring, or the generally rugged build, or even the well-defined ...

4 July, 2019

Contax TVS – Mini Review – By Lukas Walter

By Lukaswalter

When my girlfriend and I made the decision to visit Japan a year ago, I had just got back into film photography after a long hiatus and I knew I had to find the perfect travel c...

3 July, 2019

Kodak Vision 3 250D – C41 or ECN2 – A quick comparison – by Phil Harrison

By Phil Harrison

A little while ago I tried some 35mm Cinestill 800 colour negative, which is Kodak Vision 3 500 Tungsten movie film with the Remjet anti-halation backing removed. Exposed at EI8...

2 July, 2019

Contax S2 – A mini-review – by Aivaras

By Aivaras

I had an opportunity to own and use Contax S2 together with 3 lenses (Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm F1.7 C/Y, Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 85mm F2.8 C/Y and Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 28mm F2.8...

1 July, 2019

That time I shot with a Mamiya Press lens strapped to a Sony A7Rii – By Martin Ellard

By martinellard

I started collecting parts for a summer project with my son. I’ve been wanting to build a Goodman 3D printed medium format camera for a while and finally took the plunge on orde...

1 July, 2019

Negative Supply Film Carrier MK1 for camera scanning Launched on Kickstarter

By Hamish Gill

As the inventor of pixl-latr, you might guess the film scanning with a digital camera space is a very interesting and exciting topic to me. Which is why when new products that o...

1 July, 2019

Lomo LC-A – a one-roll / 15-year review

By Hamish Gill

The Lomo LC-A is, without much doubt one of the most well known Soviet cameras. Despite being what basically amounts to a very basic, fairly low quality, point & shoot camera, t...

30 June, 2019

5 Frames with a First-Gen Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 Wide Open and a Leica M240 – by Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

About two years back I was perusing Leica lens offerings on eBay and came across this gem, a first generation Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4. It was the black chrome version and appe...

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