28 October, 2025

My Introduction to Film Photography

By Randy Castillo

My introduction into photography began many years ago around 2015 or 2016 with a Sony digital a5000. A small compact APS-C camera I purchased from Best Buy for a whopping $400! ...

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28 October, 2025

There’s more to the garden than the BBQ – A tale of four cameras and a deadly ladder.

By Simon Bohrsmann

Don’t get me wrong, I love my BBQ. In the summer it smokes and sizzles with all kinds of marinated goodies getting a good char. But a garden needs cheer as well, and that ...

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27 October, 2025

My Favorite Photo of 2025?

By David Pauley

As I write these words it is mid-September, with almost a third of 2025 yet to go, yet I’m nonetheless fairly certain that the image above will turn out to be my favorite ...

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27 October, 2025

Leica vs Leica – M vs R cameras & lenses and thoughts on Rangefinders & SLRs

By Scott Ferguson

If someone handed you two high end cameras — a rangefinder and an SLR  —  which would you pick up first?  Which would you end up sticking with as your ‘when in...

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27 October, 2025

Viltrox 85mm 1.8 STM II (Nikon Z Mount) Review

By Hamish Gill

I don’t review modern autofocus lenses all that often, but recently – for reasons I will come to in a moment – I have begun to find them increasingly interesting. Ac...

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26 October, 2025

Mamiya-6 Automat – GAS ATTACK!!!

By Geoff Chaplin

The following stand accused of leading me into temptation (but I’ve already forgiven them all, it’s really my own fault!): primary accused DANAI for writing such a compelling ar...

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26 October, 2025

Coney Island with A Tele-Rolleiflex

By David Pauley

A flattened, sandy oval pressed like a wad of gum into Brooklyn’s ample instep, Coney Island has been a draw for photographers for as long as the medium has existed. Altho...

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25 October, 2025

What do the film “Das Boot,” a Porsche 911, a Leica M3, the Bavarian lakes and mountains, and my wife Dani have in common?

By Jens

This fantastic Sunday afternoon, captured on Kodak Gold 200, was one of those rare gifts where everything aligned perfectly: the weather, the scenery, the car – and, naturally, ...

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