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30 December, 2025

The Discipline of One Lens

By Ken Davis

30 December, 2025

/ Lens Theory, /

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Life is too easy for photographers these days! We have wide-ranging, versatile zoom lenses. Those folk using phones also have a choice of focal lengths on many models. Now I usually have a 28/35/50 Tri-Elmar attached to a Leica M digital body. Fir...

30 December, 2025

Foggy train crossing – My Photo of The Year 2025

By Christopher Welch

30 December, 2025

/ automotive photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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I love this picture. I immediately thought of it when I read Hamish’s Call for Entries for photo of 2025. One Sunday morning in October, I was on my way out the door to meet my wife. It was around 8:30. I walked out to dense fog. There was this mo...

Hat Yai Lee Garden Night Market

30 December, 2025

Exploring Hat Yai’s Famous Night Market with a roll of Kodak Tri-X

By Danai

30 December, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Tri-X, travel photography, Zeiss 50mm ZM Sonnar, Zeiss Ikon ZM, /

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Hat Yai is the largest city in Southern Thailand, near the Malaysian border. It’s known for its blend of Thai, Chinese, and Muslim cultures, and for its culinary delights, including the famous Hat Yai crispy fried chicken, fresh seafood, spicy sou...

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24 July, 2025

5 Photographs taken with a Yashica Mat 124G in the Zócalo of Mexico City.

By Leonel Leyva C

For those of us who have used a TLR camera, any invitation to use one again is a wonderful excuse to enjoy it. The mechanisms, the construction, the finish, the enormous waist-l...

Minolta X-700 with the box for a roll of Rollei Retro 400S

23 July, 2025

Rollei Retro 400S in Paris, with a Minolta X700

By James Billings

I recently headed back to Paris for a long weekend, for the first time since I started shooting film again. Having taken photos there many times in the past using my digital gea...

Front face of Expo Watch Camera

23 July, 2025

Expo Watch Camera – Shooting a tiny pocket watch sized camera

By Chris Peregoy

After retiring two years ago from the Art department of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where I managed the photography facilities for over forty years, I have been...

Coudenberg Palace Zeiss Sonnar

22 July, 2025

Underground 2: Coudenberg Palace, with a Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f1.5

By Geoff Chaplin

The Palace of Coudenberg (central Brussels), supposedly one of the finest in Europe, was destroyed by fire in 1731 (CE) and the ruins demolished in the late 18th century to make...

22 July, 2025

Kodachrome 25 K14 – My first and last ever 2 rolls and remembering the ContaxG Pages site

By Ibraar Hussain

In memory of my friend and mentor Lincoln Michaud born February 12th 1940 in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, p[assed away on March 29th 2015 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Kodachrome They...

City skyline

21 July, 2025

Adox HR-50 – A Better Aerial Film

By Omar Tibi

One night months ago, I was hunched over my laptop, feeding my film appetite, looking for a store that had Adox HR-50 in stock. I had just stumbled across it while looking for n...

21 July, 2025

Box Brownie No. 2 – 1888 and all that

By Tony Warren

Review of Box Brownie No. 2

Oberwerth M Bag

20 July, 2025

Oberwerth M Bag – Worth the Price-tag?

By Derek Hope

Wherever you’re from, you’ll have probably heard the old adage “variety is the spice of life”. While this is true in many ways, when it comes to photography gear, I’ve always fo...

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