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10 June, 2026

A group chat for contributors / paid subs

By Hamish Gill

10 June, 2026

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I am thinking about setting up maybe a whatsapp group chat or similar for contributors. Open to ideas around a platform, as long as it’s nothing too complicated to use. Who would be interested? Suggestions, thoughts, comments?

10 June, 2026

The Next Emperor of Foro Italico – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

10 June, 2026

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Late afternoon in Rome in mid-May. The Foro Italico hosts the Italian Open, where the gotha of the international tennis entertains the audience, while Piazza del Popolo a court where people are given, for free, access to pre-qualification matches,...

10 June, 2026

Fotopro Origin Travel Tripod – Long-term Review

By Sroyon

10 June, 2026

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Tripods, I feel, are among the less glamorous photography accessories. They don’t have the technical wizardry of gimbals and drones, nor the whizbang street-cred of flashes and strobes. Lenny Kravitz has a photobook called Flash, but it̵...

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18 June, 2020

Leica R3 – a Review in a Galaxy Far, Far Away – By Luke Patton

By Luke Patton

For Christmas this past year, my wife bought me a second hand Leica R3 body. These are somewhat common and affordable as they are not the Leica Rangefinder film body the world h...

17 June, 2020

5 Frames Locked-down and loaded – By Dave Whenham

By Dave Whenham

It was mid-morning on Wednesday 18th March that I received the not-unexpected call from my consultant – please stay home for your own safety. It was an instruction dressed up as...

17 June, 2020

Fomapan 200 for my first Black and White slides – By Fred Baboulaz

By frederic BABOULAZ

I have been shooting film exclusively for 2 years, but recently I decided to try some experiments. It was after watching a video on youtube that I wanted to get into the adventu...

16 June, 2020

3 Focal Lengths in Danish Marshland – by Sroyon Mukherjee

By Sroyon

If you saw the recent "Guess the Focal Length" Twitter post, this is where we reveal the answers. You can of course jump straight to the end, but since the photos were part of a...

16 June, 2020

Hunting Dinosaurs or: Photographing Abandoned Factories – by Christian Schroeder

By Christian Schroeder

Abandoned factories: I wish I could have them all! – This article is going to tell you a bit more about my passion for outdated, formerly functional architecture. Maybe you are ...

15 June, 2020

Minox EC Review – The smallest usable camera in the world – By Victor Doroshenko

By vzzdor

No, it was not love at first sight. The first time I saw the Minox EC I did not fall madly in love with this small piece of black plastic from the nineties. I was charmed then w...

15 June, 2020

Skyllaney restored Jupiter-3 Review – Exploring the Classic Sonnars pt.11

By Hamish Gill

Another Skyllaney lens to recently pass through my hands was this wonderful restored Jupiter-3. My past experiences with Jupiter-3 lenses - at least apart from the Lomography on...

14 June, 2020

5 Frames with a Zeiss 35mm f/2.8 C Biogon, Leica M6 and T-Max400 at EI400 – by Phil Harrison

By Phil Harrison

The lockdown has given people plenty of opportunity to buy stuff they can't afford and don't really need, I know, I'm one of them. I'd been thinking about replacing the 7Artisan...

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