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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

27 April, 2025

/ holga lens, Lens Adapting & Modification, Nikon EM, /

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13 June, 2024

On Composition – Or: the eye sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend

By Andrea Monti

This shot, taken during the Italian Road Running National Championships, is a fair application of the French philosopher Henri Bergson aphorism to composition: the eye sees what...

13 June, 2024

Grain, Glorious Grain! – T-Max 3200 pushed to 6400

By Denis Lafrance

Ever since I started photography, when digital was not even a dream, I always love the effect of film grain. It always felt as if it was made by an artist, albeit a chemical one...

12 June, 2024

How to (Unconventionally) Shoot Track and Field Competitions

By Andrea Monti

Having been given a LOC pass for the European Athletics Championships currently taking place in Rome, I was able to practice unusual compositions in sports photography. Usually,...

Projection of light from a modified 50mm lens

12 June, 2024

Converting a 50mm lens meant for 35mm film to large format

By Jim Skelton

I’ve often observed from afar large format photographers esoterically divining their cameras and producing photos that my 35mm camera could only dream about. But I was lar...

11 June, 2024

Cleaning a Classic Canon f/1.2 LTM Lens

By Dave Powell

A while back, I snagged a beautiful Canon VI-T rangefinder camera for small bucks at a yard sale. It’s probably as close as I’ll ever come to owning a classic Leic...

11 June, 2024

What does it take to be a Photographer?

By Tony Warren

In photography’s infancy, the mark of a photographer was black fingers from contact with the chemicals used (and probably a pale complexion). In the later 20th century, a...

10 June, 2024

5 frames with a Nikon FM2 & Kentmere 400 pushed to 3200

By Máté Krausz

I am definitively a newcomer when it comes to film photography. Apart from a few rolls taken with point-and-shoot cameras as a child, I was shooting only digital until I picked ...

10 June, 2024

Pearl River 4 – A Chinese TLR camera

By Bill Watts

This is a review of the Pearl River 4. But first a little Chinese camera history. The first TLR to be manufactured in China was the Shanghai TLR by the Shanghai Camera company. ...

Erik Brammer on A Blurred Journey – Through Nikon EM and Holga Lens
Hey Eagle, This is a great story amplified by great photographs. Thanks a lot for sharing! Best, Erik
Richard Becker on 5 Rushed Frames with a Canon EOS3 and an EF 14mm f/2.8L ii.
Thank you. I had thought it was all polycarbonate until that appeared after a couple of years of use. But…
Gary Smith on A Blurred Journey – Through Nikon EM and Holga Lens
I enjoyed your story Eagle, and your images do seem to correspond to the mood. I hope you are in…

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