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25 November, 2024

Join me and the photography community on Bluesky

By Hamish Gill

25 November, 2024

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Just a note to say that I, like many people, have finally completely ditched Twitter in favour of Bluesky. I joined Bluesky sometime ago now, but whilst it was in its testing phase it was a little quiet. Now it’s open for anyone to join any ...

25 November, 2024

5 Frames with a Vivitar 70-210 f/3.5

By Sebastian Shields

25 November, 2024

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Cheap zoom lenses have never had a great reputation. Especially in the Digital age, some budget zooms are considered a bit of a plague. Cheap, plasticky, and very poor optically. To many, a budget zoom is a small step above the kit lens and is for...

Color photo of a Konica Pearl III medium format folding camera.

25 November, 2024

Konica Pearl III Medium Format Folder – Review and Street Shots from NYC

By Chad Gayle

25 November, 2024

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As much as I love film, I’ve always had a love / hate relationship with medium format. Spoiled by the speed of 35mm’s fast lenses and the liberal largesse of 4×5 and 5×7 large format negatives, medium format has always seemed to me to be...

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3 December, 2023

5 Frames with a Kiev 4a and Ilford FP4 Plus – A summer love story in Italy

By fleetwoodler

My recent trip to Apulia, Italy, has been a great one. Not only did I experience the full beauty of Italian culture and landscapes, but also realized how far my photography jour...

2 December, 2023

NEWS: “What The Film?!” Challenges Photographer’s to Identify Black and White Film Stocks

By Molly Kate

Managing editor and founder of Analog Cafe, Dmitri Tcherbadji, along with Vancouver photographers, Yvonne Hanson and Daren Zomerman, are sharing a fun web game with the public t...

2 December, 2023

Development Tests, Part 2: Adox Rodinal 400:1, Fomapan 100 Classic and TTArtisans 50mm f1.4

By Geoff Chaplin

I rephotographed some earlier images in good sunlight (versus cloudy dull before). The same film stock was shot on a Leica MP with a TTArtisans 50mm f1.4 lens and film developed...

1 December, 2023

Harman Phoenix 200 – First Roll Review & Experiences

By Hamish Gill

Sometime mid October I had an ominous message from Michelle at HARMAN Technology saying she needed to talk to me about something. I must admit, seeing as it was the day before t...

1 December, 2023

NEWS: HARMAN Photo Introduces Phoenix ISO 200 Colour Film Made from Scratch in the UK

By Molly Kate

The wait is over and we can finally talk about HARMAN Photo’s brand new product, a colour film called Phoenix 200! This is a film made from scratch in the UK with an ISO ...

1 December, 2023

410 East 65th Street

By Gerard Exupery

Whatever the reason, my telephone fell off the wall regularly, and I used tape and gum to effect repairs. When the handset gave up, I used my stereo headphones for the receiver....

30 November, 2023

Phytogram Experiments in Weeds – What Pushes Through

By Catriona Gray

Monday morning in September. Feels like it could be one of the last glorious days of the year. It’s phytogram day. I’m not quite sure what I want to do but I found...

30 November, 2023

A Roll of My Grandfather’s Film – Agfa Isopan on his Leica I

By Richard Becker

Some years ago my late father handed me a cardboard box containing 100’s of his father’s negatives dating from the 1920’s onwards. The vast majority in bulk...

Jeffery Luhn on Join me and the photography community on Bluesky
Twitter = X = Yuck. Hopefully Bluesky will filter out the dregs. I'll check it out.
Jeffery Luhn on 5 Frames with a Vivitar 70-210 f/3.5
Sebastian, Hmmm, I bought that Vivitar zoom for my Nikon when it first came out and abandoned it in favor…
Jeffery Luhn on Konica Pearl III Medium Format Folder – Review and Street Shots from NYC
Chad, Nice shots! I love folding cameras! They are the Goldilocks size between 35mm and 4x5. My brand of choice…

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