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6 September, 2025
Voigtlander Vito BL repair fail and GAS-fired workaround
Lee Miller could completely strip down her Rolleiflex ‘to the last nut and bolt’ and reassemble it in the dark ‘in some crummy billet’, according to her son, Antony Penrose. Thi...
6 September, 2025
Photographing a Mexican Cartel with a Fuji Instax Mini 12
Some background: I’m a photojournalist and a YouTuber. I covered migration and conflict for nearly six years across the Americas and Europe before starting the channel ‘Through ...
5 September, 2025
Slowly stumbling into large format
I’m beginning this article in early August 2025. I first started thinking about large format somewhere in 2024 and began watching various YouTube videos that covered the c...
5 September, 2025
Nons Instant Back – Is this a review…?
The Nons instant back has been out for a while now… so I’ll spare you the technical review, unboxing, and product photos. Instead I’d like to tell you why this product is perfec...
Super-wide lens’s promotional materials, reviews and forum posts seem to lean heavily to architectural and landscape images. That generally is not how I have used this cla...
4 September, 2025
Capturing Nova Scotia on Film
When I was 21, my parents moved from the hard-hitting, nickel-mining city of Sudbury, Ontario, to the quaint touristy town of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. With little hesitation, I ...
3 September, 2025
5 Frames in Waco, Texas with a Pentax K1000
I spent several years after my PhD working for Baylor University in Waco, Texas; First as a post-doc and then as a lecturer at the Physics Department. Waco is a mid-sized but qu...
3 September, 2025
‘One Third Keepers’ with a Minolta 9000 and Kentmere Pan 200
The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...
