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24 August, 2026

Nippon Kogaku W-Nikkor 3.5cm f/1.8 LTM – A Review a Legendary Lens (Pt. 2 of 3)

By Rollin Banderob

24 August, 2026

/ 35mm Lens, Nikon Lens, Rangefinder Lens, W-Nikkor 3.5cm f/1.8, Wide-Angle Lens, /

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Mamiya 7ii with 65mm f/4 lens on white background © Sam Westenskow

4 July, 2026

5 Frames along the Oregon Coast with the Mamiya 7ii and Kodak Ektachrome E100

By Sam Westenskow

My foray into photography began five years ago when I bought my first camera: a humble Canon AE-1. I’ve since sold the AE-1 in favor of my beloved Nikon FM2n (I really wasn’t to...

3 July, 2026

Walking Underground Space – How Photographing Stations Shape the Way We See

By Danilo Leonardi

It began with a slight drop in the stomach, not fear exactly, but something closer to the sensation of standing near the edge of a height. I noticed this while using the Elizabe...

2 July, 2026

Color or Black & White – A Few of my own thoughts on the choice

By Domen Nan

I want to talk about something that has been going through my mind lately. I’ve been thinking a lot about the basic film photographer’s decision: Color or B&W? It’s funny ho...

2 July, 2026

M-Kamera (Magic, Mental, My!) – Fixing the smartphone photography

By vzzdor

The best camera is the one with you, and yet most photographers, including myself despise smartphones as photographic tools. There are some good reasons for that, but for me per...

Black-and-white photograph of pedestrians walking past the tall, dark rectangular windows of a Wall Street building. The figures appear small against the massive architecture, creating a stark geometric composition of vertical shadows, bright pavement, and human silhouettes.

1 July, 2026

I Photograph Landscapes, But I’m Not a Landscape Photographer – What Paul Strand taught me about looking past genre

By Derek Zhao

The French composer Maurice Ravel, whom you likely know from his ubiquitous Bolero, lost his battle with history. Despite his protestations, he is now labeled an Impressionist, ...

30 June, 2026

On the Windowsill – One Shot Story

By Walter Reumkens

I took this photo in 2018, in a large city 60 km from my home. I had just turned 70, everyone was talking about climate change, and I wanted to do my bit too, so I’d taken out a...

30 June, 2026

A day at the pier with an Olympus DC 35

By Greg May

The British seaside is an odd place. Many places that once were mighty have fallen deeply into disrepair and dispair. There are however some things we can expect from any trip. ...

29 June, 2026

Zeiss Ikon Icarex – Roll over Nikon

By Ibraar Hussain

My Instagram Voigtländer first came into being in Vienna, Archduchy of Austria in 1756 (270 years ago) before moving permanently to Brunswick in what was then the Duchy of the s...

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Jonathan Leavitt on Nippon Kogaku W-Nikkor 3.5cm f/1.8 LTM – A Review a Legendary Lens (Pt. 2 of 3)
Thank you again for another very edifying installment of lens journalism. To add my two cents, basically all spherical lens…
Geoff Chaplin on Plus X and a Mamiya 7II in Venice
I think it's all been said! But I'll repeat anyway: absolutely brilliant set of images, toned prints and story. The…
Ed on Being Un-Leica
Hi Jeffrey - your photographs are good evidence that the old adage - it's not the camera, it's the photographer…

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