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Vintage Nikon Lens 50mm f1.8 ai requiring repair due to focussing problems

18 November, 2025

Nikon 50mm f1.8 AI Lens – No. 1761389

By Ed

18 November, 2025

/ 50mm Lens, Nikon 50mm 1.8 AI, normal lens, /

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20 October, 2025

Pretend Geisha – One Shot Story

By Eagle Omomuro

This was in 2015, the same year I began the project Nansensu. A local TV celebrity came across my early work. She asked me to make something ‘darker than boudoir’, something pri...

20 October, 2025

Prakticas and Their Associated Lenses – Building A Film Camera and Lens System At Reasonable Cost

By Ken Davis

The post that Matt Reverzani gave us about his work with a Praktica L prompted me to write an article about this range of cameras. Now the Prakticas were always ‘bottom of the p...

19 October, 2025

Assignment of Exposures using Ansel Adams’ Zone System

By Cristian Ionescu

The purpose of this post is to get the reader a full picture on The Zone System explaining step by step the way it works. Since most tutorials I have come across with were too s...

Front view of an Agfa Agfamatic 901 E Motor camera surrounded my 35mm film cassettes

19 October, 2025

Agfa Agfamatic 901 E Motor — Beautifully Loud

By Benjamin Chan

I didn’t expect to pick up another 110 camera after the Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL I wrote about earlier, let alone so soon after. But when I saw an unusual Agfa Agfamatic...

18 October, 2025

5 Frames with the Bessa L, Kodak Gold 200 and Alpine Classics at Lake Walchensee

By Jens

Some cameras make you feel clever. The Voigtländer Bessa L makes you feel… well, slightly mad. A 35mm body without a viewfinder is like a pub without beer: technically possible,...

18 October, 2025

Black and White Panoramic Photography in the Philippines

By Tom Kluyver

The Philippines greeted me with its rhythm and endless beauty. I did not set out with grand plans. My only certainty was to pack the Hasselblad XPan and a few rolls of black and...

17 October, 2025

Zorki 6 & Caffenol – Finding, fixing and developing – a new old experience

By Mark Statham

Back at the beginning of June this year (2025) while searching the dreaded eBay looking for my next new old camera to add to my growing collection I came across a Zorki 6 in ...

17 October, 2025

Voigtlander VF 135 – A Very Small Review

By Sorin Lazarescu

I must confess, right from the beginning, that for the last 40 years or so, if not even longer, I have been a rangefinder user only; I stopped using SLR cameras, and quite an ex...

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