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1 January, 2025

TLR under Grey Skies – A response to Geoff’s TLR challenge

By Paul Quellin

1 January, 2025

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9 April, 2024

Krauss Rolette Luxus – an old timer’s story

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The Krauss Rolette Luxus got my attention twofold: it’s an exceedingly beautiful piece of machinery from the days of yore, and because it is related to the photographic p...

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Rollei AFM35 – A Regular Companion Once More

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In the early noughties, I had decided that I wanted a digital camera. I visited a couple of camera shops in Manchester, with a view to buying one, but was underwhelmed by what w...

8 April, 2024

Pentax Q7 – A Black and White Holiday Workflow

By Hamish Gill

I’ve really taken to the Pentax Q7, so much so that it was the only camera I used on a recent 4 day trip to The Gower Peninsula in South Wales. I also took a point and sh...

7 April, 2024

Photography and the Importance of a Proper Training

By Andrea Monti

In photography, among the various activities falling under the ‘preparation’ label, training is oftend underevaluated. Just as many newcomers to the world of guns th...

6 April, 2024

Shooting Contre-Jour

By Geoff Chaplin

Three months under cloud cover became depressing – we just had to go somewhere to find some sun to shine on our faces, or even hearts maybe. To lift our mood. We took a s...

5 April, 2024

7Artisans 60mm 2.8 Macro Lenses – A Comparison of Two Lenses for Film Scanning

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After a few years of trying different film labs, with the never-ending pondering about the quality of their developing process and scanning setups, I finally decided to simply d...

4 April, 2024

Leica M3 and Portra 400 at 6000 Feet (1828 meters)

By Curtis Heikkinen

Since retiring in 2015, I have been seriously pursuing photography, digital for the most part. About a year or so ago, I resurrected an old film camera from the 1980s, a Konica ...

4 April, 2024

Going Analog on Okinawa – Part I – The Decision

By David Tan

Up until about nine months ago, I was exclusively a DSLR shooter – my photographic journey started with a consumer Nikon APS-C (D5100 in 2010) and topped out at a D750, w...

Rollin on Kodak Single-Element Plastic Meniscus Lens – A Quest for the Primitive, Episode 1: The Worst Lens Ever Produced?
Great read, thank you for going primitive and sharing. What happened with the EVF?
Jonathan Leavitt on Kodak Single-Element Plastic Meniscus Lens – A Quest for the Primitive, Episode 1: The Worst Lens Ever Produced?
Some of the Kodak lenses are really quite good - that is, well-corrected. I am only familiar with those for…
Chris Davenport on Kodak Single-Element Plastic Meniscus Lens – A Quest for the Primitive, Episode 1: The Worst Lens Ever Produced?
I have always wondered this concept of plastic lens on nicer cameras. And 6 element lens on Kodak X-15. It…

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