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10 December, 2025

Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4 – A Demanding Use Case

By Andrea Monti

10 December, 2025

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For shooting Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at Teatro Marrucino, I took a Carl Zeiss Jena 135/4 lens as a backup for long shots. Master Adriano Lolli replaced the original Contax mount with a Fuji X mount, saving me from the inconvenience o...

10 December, 2025

Predator Or Vampire: A Revision of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

By Andrea Monti

10 December, 2025

/ Fuji X-T5, Stage Performance Photography, /

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Yesterday night I was on the (back)stage of Teatro Marrucino for the premiere of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as always in my capacity of official photographer, with the goal of documenting the event for the theatre’s photographic library. I have ...

Singapore's Tiong Bahru Neighborhood

10 December, 2025

A Stroll Through Singapore’s Tiong Bahru Neighborhood with a roll of Kodak Double-X

By Danai

10 December, 2025

/ Contax T, Kodak Double-X, travel photography, /

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It was the last day of my trip to Singapore for a conference, and I was hoping to make the most of it photographically. After being stuck indoors for the past couple of days, I was eager to get out and explore. I’ve visited Singapore many times an...

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31 August, 2025

IPA 2025 International Photographer Of the Year Yehor Lemzyakoff on Misplaced Childhood and his Photography

By Ibraar Hussain

“You know, I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. Oh, most everybody else didn’t realize we lived in that web of magic, ...

31 August, 2025

Analogue (and analogue inspired) Newsletter September 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

Welcome to the September Analogue (and analogue inspired) News and Tittle-Tattle. As I write this the Summer is just about over, thankfully it still lingers on and I’m hop...

A colour triptych image, three portrait photos of a mural on the side of a building. The mural is abstract with big sweeping waves of rainbow ribbons in a pastel colour.

30 August, 2025

Worldwide Half-Frame Photography Day 6th September 2025!

By Yant Martin-Keyte

Inspired by Holga week and worldwide pinhole day I’d like to share half-frame day with you. It’s all about having fun celebrating this great analogue format! There will be a pho...

30 August, 2025

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – Part 2 – Embracing Colours

By Martin H

This is the second part of my article, Analogue Photography – A Personal Journey. If you haven’t read the first part yet, I recommend doing so — it provides useful background, h...

29 August, 2025

‘One Third Keepers’ with a Minolta Dynax 7 and Kentmere Pan 400 exposed at ISO 200

By Bob Janes

The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...

29 August, 2025

Contax T – The OG one The Kardashians should’ve had

By Ibraar Hussain

The Contax T, the one that started off which is now a cult like series of high end electronic Compact Cameras. I had hitherto owned and photographed with the other T series came...

28 August, 2025

5 Frames with a Praktica L – Nothing more than necessary

By Matt Reverzani

I’m all about purity of form and function, and I love a good brutalist design aesthetic. So when I discovered that there was a whole line of cheap and ugly-beautiful SLRs ...

28 August, 2025

Brownie 2A – a final follow up.

By Tony Warren

Browenie 2A and mask to match 120 film width.

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JC on Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4 – A Demanding Use Case
The CZJ Sonnar is one of the best telephoto lenses i've ever used. I use it on Contax RTS or…
Danai on A Stroll Through Singapore’s Tiong Bahru Neighborhood with a roll of Kodak Double-X
Thank you for the kind words. I love how with film the quality is much less dependent on the camera…
Neil Lloyd on A Stroll Through Singapore’s Tiong Bahru Neighborhood with a roll of Kodak Double-X
Great series, the camera and film are well matched giving a timeless feel to the scenes.

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