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24 June, 2026

Exploring horizontal camera scanning solutions

By verybigobo

24 June, 2026

/ Digitisation Theory, Film Holder, Film Scanning, /

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19 August, 2025

Fujifilm Velvia 50 and an Aesthetic of Necessity

By David Hume

I’ve recently been digging through folders and shoeboxes, looking for photos I shot in Venice in January 1995. That was a painting trip, but of course I took some cameras with m...

19 August, 2025

5 frames with a Panasonic GX9 and Olympus 135mm manual lens – Compact gig cam

By Charles Higham

I haven’t taken a camera with me to a concert before but as I was lucky enough to have a front row seat to see Natalie Umbruglia and The Corrs I thought this was a good opportun...

18 August, 2025

Robert Frank’s View in Butte, Montana – One Shot Story

By John Bennett

When my wife, Darby, and I mapped out our recent road trip through the American West, it was not our intention to follow the same route that Robert Frank took in the mid-1950s w...

18 August, 2025

Voigtländer Bessa 46 – It’s Quite Good Actually.

By Richard Becker

I bought this Voigtländer Bessa 46 in a job lot of 4 cameras, it wasn’t the one I bought the lot for and to be honest it looked the least promising of them all and I had taken n...

17 August, 2025

It’s Time for the Soft-Focus Revival!

By mark stein

Try it! The most salient learning of my soft-focus foray was a greater awareness for light! With hindsight, that alone was worth it. But I enjoyed so much more in my journey fro...

17 August, 2025

Looking for Daenerys Targaryen in Astapor – Street Photography in Magical Essaouira with an Olympus E-1

By Ibraar Hussain

Astapor in Essos Game of Thrones. I took a while to watch the series, having read the (Song of Ice and Fire) books when they were released many years ago I wasn’t too keen on wa...

16 August, 2025

Shooting the Al Di Meola Trio live. More a pleasure than an assignment

By Andrea Monti

Last July, 29 I covered leg of Al Di Meola’s tour taking place in Abruzzo —my home region— for a magazine I work for. For once, I could have accepted an assignment even i...

16 August, 2025

Box Brownie No. 2 Special – the last 120 Box Brownie.

By Tony Warren

Kodak No. 2 Brownie Special. Rollei 80S.

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