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30 April, 2025

Central Coffee To Go – an Impromptu Gallery

By Julian Tanase

30 April, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford HP5+, Nikon F3, Portrait Photography, /

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4 September, 2021

Chasing a Hot Dog with a Leitz-Minolta CL – By Dan Castelli

By Dan Castelli

Like many photographers, I have a camera that serves as back-up to my primary photography equipment. In my case, it’s the Leitz-Minolta CL with the 40mm f/2.0 M-Rokkor lens. Th...

3 September, 2021

Aperture Zero 05. Oil

By Merik

When thoughts grow dull and the eye calcifies, a little lubrication is required to keep the pipes from stiffening. With sticky valves he was having to puff harder which pushed t...

3 September, 2021

Texet TX-500 review – Fake Autoexposure Compact ? – by Rock

By Rock

I'm guessing that no-one, or hardly anyone, has heard of the Texet TX-500. From the mid 1980s? What about the Premier PC-500? It's the same camera. It also goes under a Wizen br...

2 September, 2021

Aperture Zero 04. A Counterpoint

By Merik

The Pipes Man limbered up to the corrugated barrier with wild eyes. What lay behind may be a fragment of what he had long left behind, but he pressed forward into it regard...

2 September, 2021

Jena BM 80mm f/2.8 – Fixed and Adapted to a Sony for Shooting Beautiful Roses – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

This is a new adventure with a Jena BM 80mm f/2.8 lens that belongs to the Praktisix. This is a lens that my friend Carles has loaned to me. The camera that has already done its...

1 September, 2021

Empty Paris – Covid 19 & Parisian Walks with a Minox 35ML – Angèle Fourteau

By Angele Fourteau

April 2021. France was again in a state quarantine due to Covid 19's third wave. We were restricted to an area of 10km around home plus a night curfew. From my teeny tiny flat, ...

30 August, 2021

Aperture Zero 03. GAS

By Merik

Is a ‘strong sense of listlessness’ even a thing? The Pipes Man was distracted. His day-to-day, the sustenance stuff, the things that objectively matter were slipp...

30 August, 2021

Sony A7iii Mini-Review – Finding the Darkside

By Hamish Gill

It’s taken me 3 generations of Sony full frame mirrorless cameras to get used to the things, but I can now quite comfortably say that I’ve found a certain amount of peace with t...

David Pauley on Red Hook Grain Terminal – A One Shot Story
Hi Gary, and thanks for your response. Your Soviet block association is apt! Sometimes I look at that building and…
David Pauley on Holiday? Relapse? A Night Out with My Leica M3
Hi Nik -- thanks for your kind words. I generally think of myself as a black and white shooter owing…
David Pauley on Holiday? Relapse? A Night Out with My Leica M3
Hi David, and thanks so much for the kind words. I've often wished that my return to photography had come…

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