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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

25 October, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Gold 200, Leica M3, /

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10 November, 2024

5 Frames with Contax T and Fomapan 200

By Matt Benton

It’s been years since I shot 35mm film. With costs rising, and mediocre flatbed scans as my output, I was easily convinced that the format was not worth the effort. I had ...

9 November, 2024

Kodak Tourist – The Most “Transformable” MF Folder?

By Dave Powell

It’s possible that Kodak’s last medium-format folding cameras – the Tourist line – may also be the most transformable MF “pocket folders” ever made by anybody. Since...

9 November, 2024

5 frames with a Rolleicord Va on Lomography Purple

By Francois Marlier

Every once in a while since trying it for the first time, I get the itch to shoot some Lomography Purple; I enjoy the colour shifts, the surprise and excitement when I get the s...

The Leica M5 with a box of CineStill 50D

8 November, 2024

5 Frames in Berlin on a Leica M5 with CineStill 50D

By James Kezman

Berlin is a tale of two cities. In the winter months, it is dark, cold and cloistered; one hurries between destinations so as to not feel the bite of the ever present wind. The ...

8 November, 2024

Nikon F2 Photomic – The game changer

By Julian Tanase

I sometimes think that Nikon could’ve stopped producing cameras after the apparition of the Nikon F2. The way this camera changed everything is engraved deeply in the world of p...

7 November, 2024

Polachrome Polapan CT – A short-lived introduction from Polaroid

By Tony Warren

Some thoughts on a short lived Polaroid film from the 1980s.

7 November, 2024

Approaching Reportage Photography

By Rollin Banderob

I’ll soon be self-publishing these images in my first photobook and with the closing of this project I was thinking back on what I have learned over the years on approaching rep...

A monument depicting a soldier holding a rifle and bayonet.

7 November, 2024

People’s Park Chengdu with an Olympus XA3 and expired Rollei RPX 400

By Howard Mitchell

I’m lucky enough to be able to spend a couple of months in Chengdu, China each year as part of my job and usually stay in the central part of town. I take a different film camer...

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