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4 April, 2025

Minolta AF-E II Review

By Tony Warren

4 April, 2025

/ Minolta AF-E II, Minolta Point & Shoot, Point & Shoot camera, /

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Thornton Pickard Rubyette No. 2 – So now what?

By Steviemac

So now what? This is the question I ask myself, or perhaps should have asked myself when I rashly bought this wonderful example of an English plate camera. It’s a Thornton...

22 August, 2024

5 Frames with a Widelux F7 at The Louvre

By Dan Cuny

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Duncanville football receiver making a diving catch while closely guarded by opponents defensive backs

21 August, 2024

Friday Night Lights – The Catch – A One Shot Story

By Bill Brown

The year was 1981 and I had recently received a certificate of completion for a film processing and printing class at Mountain View Community College located in Dallas County. I...

21 August, 2024

Flaybrick Memorial Gardens

By John Greene

Originally from Liverpool I moved to Birkenhead in 1982. It took me 33 years before I discovered the charm of Flaybrick. It began when I came across a photograph of an angel on ...

20 August, 2024

Fixing the Leica 14405 handgrip for film cameras.

By MichaelWPlant

Recently I had a problem. I had acquired a newish nearly perfect Leica 14405 handgrip to use with my Leica MA. When it arrived, I was shocked at the state of the base. It origin...

A Leica IIIF camera with lens, leather case, yellow and orange lens filters, self-timer, tripod, and lens hood and associated Leica manuals.

20 August, 2024

Discovering some Photos Taken by my Grandfather with his Leica

By Theodore Crispino

In June 1952, my maternal grandparents embarked on a life-changing move Graz, Austria, from their home since WWII, to New York City. My grandmother, six months pregnant with my ...

19 August, 2024

AGO Film Processor – An honest review of Vintage Visual’s Film Processor

By Jeroen van Weert

For most film photographers, processing your own film can be intimidating. That’s why I was excited to try the AGO Film Processor. Here’s what I found in a nutshell:...

18 August, 2024

5 Frames of Kodak VISON3 5219T on a Leica M6 with Nokton 35mm F1.5 in Cantonese Opera Backstage

By David Wu

35mm is my favorite main focal length, the angle of view is not too big or too small for humanistic shots. The shots here were taken with the new 35mm f/1.5 large aperture lens ...

Michael Keppler on 5 frames with Ilford SFX
The pictures shown here were taken with 50 and 120mm. I actually use the 80mm relatively rarely.
David Smith on The Southwestern Ontario Winter on Film – Don’t be a Fair-Weather Photographer
Cheers, Michael. It's now April and we had a minor snowstorm two days ago, so don't be too envious...
David Smith on The Southwestern Ontario Winter on Film – Don’t be a Fair-Weather Photographer
Thanks, Daniel. That's a cool anecdote about David Douglas Duncan (pun intended).

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