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8 July, 2024

Canon 50mm Serenar f/1.9 – The Serene Beauty of the Japanese Summitar

By Andrew Bibee

8 July, 2024

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23 April, 2023

5 Frames with the Spinner 360°

By Bob Janes

I've had a thing about panoramas for some time and have experimented with rotation points and stitching software quite a bit over the years. Analogue panoramas are something els...

22 April, 2023

The Collection – An Accumulation of Film Canisters

By Jeff Neale

I posted on the Facebook/Darkroom group some pictures of my old film canister collection that I’ve been accumulating on and off then on again for over forty years now. Those pix...

21 April, 2023

Hasselblad (Zeiss) Distagon 50mm f/4 Review

By Christian Schroeder

Hello there! The important thing I want to note right in the beginning: I haven't intended this article as a comprehensive, technical-focused review of the Zeiss Distagon 50mm f...

20 April, 2023

5 Frames with an Olympus OM1, a roll of HP5 and a Bridge

By Tim Wainwright

I have a few film cameras that all mean something emotional to me (my Olympus XA2 I won in a photographic competition aged 12, my OM1 was my only camera for about 20 years until...

20 April, 2023

Making Flash Work for my Photography

By Simon

I do not like flash photography. I do not enjoy the feeling of light cutting through the darkness directly towards whomever or whatever I am photographing. However, sometimes t...

19 April, 2023

Confessions of a “Windmill Hog” (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

Yes, I confess. I’m a “Windmill Hog.” I learned this sad truth when Kate and I took a tour of the Rhine and Mosel Rivers in August, ‎2005. One of our...

19 April, 2023

So you want to get into Minox photography?

By Julian Tanase

Would it be a good move for you? I honestly don’t know. Would it? It all depends, I guess, on why you just bought one (am I right?). Perhaps you found one in an old box of stuf...

18 April, 2023

Heavens Above

By Geoff Chaplin

The City of London has many beautiful churches, and a few ruins. ‘The Friends of the City Churches’ is an architectural heritage charity helping to open the churches for visito...

Russ on Canon 50mm Serenar f/1.9 – The Serene Beauty of the Japanese Summitar
Great to see these early Canon lenses getting some deserved attention. I have been working with a Canon IVS lately…
John F. on Canon 50mm Serenar f/1.9 – The Serene Beauty of the Japanese Summitar
Nice pictures, nice article. I haven't seen too much written about this lens, but it's clear you've got quite a…
Ibraar Hussain on Polo in The Karakoram – Hockey on Horseback with a Contax G2 and Velvia 50
Thank you so much my friend The film coupled with the rustic surrounding does give it a look from times…

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