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27 November, 2024

Leica III from 1933 – Perfectly Imperfect

By Chris Hooke

27 November, 2024

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3 March, 2024

A Versatile Adaptation of the Leitz Wetzlar F/2.5 Colourplan

By Morris Bagnall

I spend far too much time watching photography YouTube videos and reading photography websites and fora. Hours and hours. Right, with that confession out of the way let me tell ...

2 March, 2024

NEWS: Analogue Showcase is Back at The NEC Birmingham Photography Show – March 16-19

By Molly Kate

The Photography Show is back at the NEC Birmingham March 16-19, 2024. The National Exhibition Centre situated in Marston Green, England will host an all-things-photography weeke...

2 March, 2024

A Weekend Getaway to Nagiso with Ricoh GR1v and Kodak Gold 200

By Yuze Chen

One day in last November, my mom was telling me a plan her classmates from college came up recently about traveling to some small towns in Japan. In spite of work-related issues...

1 March, 2024

Festivity of the Goat and “Canhoto”

By Paulo Monteiro

The village of Cidões has just 20 inhabitants. It’s located in Trás-os-Montes, in the northern inland of Portugal. Every year, on the Saturday after 31 October, ...

1 March, 2024

Soligor 35mm f/3.5 – A Cheap and Cheerful Softie

By Mark Ellerby

I bought this from Real Camera because I wanted a wider-than-50mm lens for my Praktica SLR, not having any idea who Soligor are/were (and still not much the wiser). It was cheap...

29 February, 2024

(森林浴) Shinrin-Yoku or Forest Bathing Might Be the Best Thing for You and Your Photography

By Eric Charles Jones

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I ...

29 February, 2024

That Time I Built an X-Pro1/Monitor-Six-20 “FrankenFuji”

By Dave Powell

In my days before 35mmc, Jim Gray published this article on his great “Down the Road” site. It described how and why I adapted a 1940’s Kodak Monitor Six-20 le...

28 February, 2024

Defining Environmental Automotive Portraiture

By grain_frame

Like any photographer, I can see reoccurring themes in my work. Thoughts or ideas that I go back to, again and again, in order to re-explore or develop further. One of the most ...

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