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22 April, 2026

7Artisans 35mm f/2.8 Ultra-Compact Rangefinder Lens Review

By Alexander Doran

22 April, 2026

/ 35mm Lens, 7Artisans 35mm f/2.8, Rangefinder Lens, Wide-Angle Lens, /

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Released today (22nd of April 2026), the new 7Artisans 35mm f/2.8 lens occupies a poorly-explored niche in the modern era; that of the sharp, ultra-compact prime lens. And believe me, despite its few limitations it absolutely delivers, especially ...

22 April, 2026

What the Lever Opened – One Shot Story

By Josh Baker

22 April, 2026

/ Double Exposure, Kodak Double-X, Nikon FM2n, /

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This is not who I was allowed to be. Circumstances in my past lives built boundaries around the innermost states that contained freedom. Vulnerability. They inhibited stepping outside of the identity I constructed. I was produced to be formal, ser...

LeRouge 612 panorama pinhole camera for 120 film

22 April, 2026

LeRouge 612 MK2 – Portable Panoramic Pinhole – Why Barnack would have approved of it

By Jens Kotlenga

22 April, 2026

/ LeRouge 612 MK2, Panoramic Camera, Pinhole Cameras, /

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So there was this guy who took it upon himself to hike from the Atlantic Ocean all the way down to the Mediterranean, following the Pyrenean long-distance mountain trail, all of 850 kilometres in 48 days. In his backpack he had made room for a pan...

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Lockdown 2025

6 November, 2025

By Geoff Chaplin

We got back in the afternoon having spent several days in Osaka – for the centre of Hokkaido it was a reasonable temperature, around 9 degrees (48 in old money), but in the even...

Minolta X700 SLR with two lenses and old camera bag.

6 November, 2025

5 Frames at Penmon Point

By Nic

A trip to north Wales provided a long overdue opportunity for some ‘proper’ photography. To me that means picking up my camera and going out with the sole purpose of creating p...

5 November, 2025

Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan

By Scott Ferguson

Part 1 — Pushing One Stop in Santa Monica I took a quick trip to Los Angeles in late September and it was the first time I’ve visited the West Coast since taking up ...

5 November, 2025

Original, Freewill, Artificial

By Raymond Wong

When you are reading this article on an electronic device, I am sure you are living in a society with some degree of modern civilisation. So let’s look at everything around you ...

Food Van at a food festival

4 November, 2025

5 Frames with Royalty at a Food Festival

By Richard Becker

I took a German/Italian Countess to a food festival the other week thinking it was the sort of outing she might enjoy, local artisan food producers along with some art and craft...

Motorway bridge over the River Exe and Exeter Ship Canal

4 November, 2025

The Motorway Bridge – A One Shot Story

By Ed

This photograph shows the underside of the motorway bridge that crosses the head of the Exe Estuary. I regularly cycle or walk under this bridge. It’s an impressive struct...

Front view of Samsung L85

4 November, 2025

Samsung Digimax L85 (and How It Replaced a Sigma DP2s)

By Ed

During the summer I bought a Foveon-based camera, the Sigma DP2s. The DP2s was released in 2010, a minor update to the DP2. I’d always wanted to try a Foveon camera and I ...

3 November, 2025

5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too

By Chris Giles

A while back I picked up a job lot of three cameras for not much money. The one I was after was a Konica C35 EF – which did prove to be exactly what I wanted, but that is ...

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Kodachromeguy on Fed-2 Soviet Rangefinder Review (with a little nod to Cameraburo)
Nice examples, Hamish! It shows that these Soviet lenses on a Soviet body can result in some beautiful results. The…
Scott Ferguson on Iceland! A Photographic Travelogue shot with a Hasselblad (and iPhone)
I love it! Definitely reach out if you are going! I think some time poking around Reykjavik and then doing…
Bob on LeRouge 612 MK2 – Portable Panoramic Pinhole – Why Barnack would have approved of it
Those shots are great! The story makes me want to try pinhole photography. Is the Der Spiegel article online somewhere?…

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