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Musician 'The Japanese House' performing on her 2024 tour in Birmingham, UK.

12 March, 2025

Standing still while the music moves – Shooting musicians with point & shoot film cameras

By Sanna Ehsan

12 March, 2025

/ Musician Photography, /

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First Shots with the Leica M9

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By GW

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By Eddy

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By Frank Lehnen

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25 July, 2016

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By Aukje

If you have read some of my posts here, you know that I am a newbie where it comes to film photography. This time I thought I would share something about optics, a subject that ...

23 July, 2016

Building a custom Olympus 35RC – “Project Deco” – Guest post by Steve Lloyd

By Steve Lloyd

I’ve got a bit of a habit for not just picking up a camera and shooting with it. Instead, I spend a lot of time thinking about how I can modify them to improve the styling, erg...

22 July, 2016

35mm Compact Photographer #20 – Michael Rennie

By Michael Rennie

I'm Michael Rennie, I live in Wormit, Fife, Scotland, I'm father to two awesome kids; Lana and Luke and married to my best friend Kate. I'm a mechatronics engineer by day but at...

Ibraar Hussain on Contax G2 – The Most Advanced Rangefinder
Hamish the way back machine is your friend To eliminate all doubt https://web.archive.org/web/20060622032817/http://www.contaxcameras.co.uk/gseries/g2/g2specification.asp
Ibraar Hussain on Contax G2 – The Most Advanced Rangefinder
Huss (if it’s my old friend from Steve huff photo) It’s a Rangefinder :) albeit an electronic one
Ibraar Hussain on Contax G2 – The Most Advanced Rangefinder
Fantastic article and photographs I long for one I had one for many many years and shot my most memorable…

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