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Grainsplaining International Women's Month Print Sale

25 March, 2024

NEWS: Grainsplaining Returns with Print Sale March 29th – April 1st For Women’s Charities

By Molly Kate

Film photography podcast, Grainsplaining, is back from a short hiatus this month with an International Women’s Day charity print sale running through Instagram. Centred a...

25 March, 2024

KEKS KM-Q – A Sugar Cube-Sized Light Meter Review

By AndreArma

As I began shooting film, my first lesson was in mastering the Sunny 16 rule — a technique for getting proper exposure without relying on a light meter. Over the years, I...

25 March, 2024

Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D in Walthamstow Marshes – Unleashing the CCD Kraken

By Ibraar Hussain

With this dark grey miserable harsh winter never ending I thought I’d add some colour into my (and your) day by writing about colour and my experience with it. Much has be...

24 March, 2024

How (not) to Reticulate

By Geoff Chaplin

I was developing film away from my darkroom. I had assembled the essential equipment and, because I knew that untreated tap water in Brussels used to be very hard, I had made up...

Page from a journal showing a diagram of a Newcomen engine.

24 March, 2024

Historical Records in Family Photographs

By Richard Becker

I am the custodian of a large archive of images taken by at least five generations of my family, with the oldest negatives dating to the mid-1880’s. These taken by Percy ...

23 March, 2024

Compact Formation: Shooting Football with a Superzoom

By Gillian Kirby

In the days before digital became the standard for sports photography, the SLR was king. Photographers lined up pitch-side to capture the action, Minolta, Nikon or Canon camera ...

22 March, 2024

Carl Zeiss 38mm Sonnar / Omnar CX38-28 for use on Hasselblad XCD and Fuji GFX

By Christopher Andreyo

Hamish asked me recently to write an article about my findings on the Carl Zeiss 38mm f/2.8 Sonnar (/Omnar CX38-28) when mounted on Hasselblad XCD and Fuji GFX cameras. Wait...

21 March, 2024

AI or not AI? or: on authenticity and photography

By Andrea Monti

The original title of this picture, taken with a Yashica Zoomate 105, was ‘When the wait to see the doctor is too long’, and it was intended to illustrate how the &#...

Simon Foale on Memorable photos made with forgettable lenses
Thanks for this Tony. I've been reading with admiration your posts, many of which showcase your impressive capacity to construct…
Simon Foale on Memorable photos made with forgettable lenses
Thanks Zach. I am also a fan of that Adams quote. The other ingredient that I think often makes a…
Tony Warren on Memorable photos made with forgettable lenses
Great read Simon and brings out the character of the various lenses well, especially the Nikons. I have a Tamron…

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