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19 November, 2025

A new old lens at No Kings Day protests

By Art Meripol

19 November, 2025

/ Leica 50mm Summicron, Leica M4-P, Protest Photography, /

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I admit. I went down the rabbit hole trying to pick out ‘the’ Leica 50mm glass to put on my Leica M4-P. I bought the camera some years back from a friend and he included a Voigtlander Nokton 35mm 1.4. It’s a lovely piece of glass. But I couldn’t h...

19 November, 2025

Earnsey Bay – My photograph of the year 2025

By Michael Zwicky-Ross

19 November, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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Google Pixel 7a, f/1.89, 1/962s, 5.43mm, ISO64, un-retouched My sister was over from Germany for a few days and, living land-locked, she loves to see the sea. It was mid October and the weather was not very pleasant but we took her to Earnsey Bay ...

19 November, 2025

Saturday Night Fight Fever

By Andrea Monti

19 November, 2025

/ Sports Photography, /

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On October 18, I was ringside to shoot the European Boxing Union‘s female super-lightweight European title fight. The crown vas vacant and the two contenders were both Italians. Silvia Bortot, a former two-time European champion, and Sonia F...

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11 December, 2024

The Whole Roll: 100 TMax in an Ordinary Place, on an Ordinary Day, in an Extraordinary camera (the Rolleiflex 2.8F).

By David Smith

“I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don’t try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.” — Andy Warhol The images on...

11 December, 2024

GoPro – Treating a Action cam Like a Point & Shoot

By Sebastian Shields

GoPros seem to be something that people buy then never use, in fact I’m guilty of this myself. There’s long been an association with GoPro and the intense and dramatic action sp...

10 December, 2024

5 Frames with a Rollei 35AF and Cinestill 800T

By Eric

The new Rollei 35AF arrived last week Friday. I have already managed to get through 6 rolls of film and I am currently working on the 7th. So far so good. For a long winded take...

Canon vi-l camera

10 December, 2024

Rangefinder with glasses? A mod made from necessity

By Christie Harkness

Anyone who is a glasses wearer and rangefinder enthusiast then this issue will be familiar with you. A quick google search for ‘rangefinder camera with glasses’ will expose you ...

Olympus 35SP camera with a roll of film.

9 December, 2024

5 Frames with an Olympus 35 SP

By James Billings

For an upcoming trip to Japan, I decided I wanted to travel fairly light (camera-wise!) using just my shoulder-bag. Whilst my backpack holds lots of gear, fishing out the camera...

Fujifilm GA645W and Ricoh GR1

9 December, 2024

Fujifilm GA645W – medium format for mountaineering?

By Adrian Riu

All mountaineers interested in photography have compromised at some point on the photographic equipment they are willing to carry. For years, my choices were either a Ricoh GR1 ...

Multiple exposures in Brighton

8 December, 2024

Brighton montage – a one shot story

By Mark Ellerby

February 2014 at a conference in Brighton. I took my recently acquired Rollei B35 along with some Kodak Gold. In the less interesting intervals of the conference I sneaked out t...

8 December, 2024

Returning to the Hakone Turnpike

By Philip

It was a balmy midsummer’s morning, which in coastal Japanese terms equates to an omnipresent buzz of cicadas and the thick heavy grasp of coastal humidity that one learns...

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