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10 December, 2025

Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4 – A Demanding Use Case

By Andrea Monti

10 December, 2025

/ Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4, /

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For shooting Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at Teatro Marrucino, I took a Carl Zeiss Jena 135/4 lens as a backup for long shots. Master Adriano Lolli replaced the original Contax mount with a Fuji X mount, saving me from the inconvenience o...

10 December, 2025

Predator Or Vampire: A Revision of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

By Andrea Monti

10 December, 2025

/ Fuji X-T5, Stage Performance Photography, /

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Yesterday night I was on the (back)stage of Teatro Marrucino for the premiere of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as always in my capacity of official photographer, with the goal of documenting the event for the theatre’s photographic library. I have ...

Singapore's Tiong Bahru Neighborhood

10 December, 2025

A Stroll Through Singapore’s Tiong Bahru Neighborhood with a roll of Kodak Double-X

By Danai

10 December, 2025

/ Contax T, Kodak Double-X, travel photography, /

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It was the last day of my trip to Singapore for a conference, and I was hoping to make the most of it photographically. After being stuck indoors for the past couple of days, I was eager to get out and explore. I’ve visited Singapore many times an...

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29 April, 2025

Holiday? Relapse? A Night Out with My Leica M3

By David Pauley

I made it almost three months into the Year of Only One Camera (my Rolleiflex 2.8F) but then – as some of you predicted – made the decision to allow myself a brief h...

28 April, 2025

Svema NK-2SH ASA 100 Soviet Cinematic Film Review

By Ibraar Hussain

Svema NK-2SH is a black and white film that is a remake of the classic Soviet film NK-2. It is produced in the same city as the original, Shostka in The Ukraine, and partly with...

A dog in South Carolina or Georgia. I didn’t see its owner.

27 April, 2025

A Blurred Journey – Through Nikon EM and Holga Lens

By Eagle Omomuro

A day in December 2011, Boston, Massachusetts. It was a cold, snowy day. But nothing felt colder than the heart of a young man lost after a series of failures. I had just gradua...

26 April, 2025

Alien Film NC400 Original Wolfen Film Review

By Ibraar Hussain

I was given this film to use and review by Mark Xiao Chenye who has begun to import and sell Re-spooled Chinese Films. Mark sent me two rolls of Film. The other being a B&W ...

25 April, 2025

Contax G1 – A thing of Beauty…

By Bob Janes

Back in 1932, following on from Leitz’s success with the Leica, Carl Zeiss introduced a competing interchangeable lens rangefinder: this was the Contax. Unlike the Leica, ...

24 April, 2025

Homeless in Hamilton. Help!

By Ron Duda

The unhoused population in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada has drastically increased in the last five years. We’re a medium sized city of around 787,000 in 2024 and have ...

Anfield Stadium Paper Negative Pinhole 12.25pm to 12.27pm Ilford MGIV

24 April, 2025

Calm Down – How Slow Photography Eased My Pre-Match Anfield Anxiety

By Ian Gamester

As Liverpool faced PSG in a high-stakes Champions League clash, one fan turned to the meditative art of slow photography to quieten the nerves. As the clock ticked down toward L...

Canon EOS 3 camera and 14mm lens

23 April, 2025

5 Rushed Frames with a Canon EOS3 and an EF 14mm f/2.8L ii.

By Richard Becker

A day when everything happened unplanned. While developing some films for my son I had trouble loading the reel; was it me? the reel? the film? the camera? I had recently bought...

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