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Leica Elmarit-R 28mm F/2.8 Lens Review
Somehow I’ve become a user of Leica lenses. This despite my general lack of money and a penchant for embracing imperfect lenses. Leica, lack of money, and optical imperfection? Doesn’t seem to fit,...
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How to Expose Both Sides of 35mm Film to Create Stunning Images – Video
By 2016, I hadn’t shot an analog photo in at least five years. I was actively shooting in college, but in my post-graduate adjustment to the real world, photography didn’t make the cut. I had almost no...
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Voigtlander Ultron 28mm F/1.9 LTM Lens Review
One summer’s day, Goldilocks goes out to gather flowers. The woods are cool and shady, and birdsong fills the air. She ventures deeper than she has ever gone before. Presently she comes upon a...
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Oliver and His Nikon Unearth Racial Violence in the Rocky Mountains’ Past
I woke up in the back of my van in a Walmart parking lot in Boise, Idaho at around six in the morning. It was still dark. I had kept my camera battery in the sleeping bag to save it from the cold...
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Five Photo Accessories I’m Glad I Bought (And Some I Regret)
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it four or five times: Accessories aren’t sexy. Chunky, fast glass is sexy. Focusing rings that glide like warm butter and aperture settings that click into place like...
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Sony E 18-135mm F/3.5-5.6 OSS Lens Review
The beauty of owning an interchangeable lens camera like the Sony A6000 is that it provides options. However, options can be as much a curse as they are a gift. Too many options can cause something...
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Check Out These Amazing Items from Flints Auctions’ November 19th Catalog
Flints Auctions Ltd. is one of the UK’s leading independent firms of auctioneers and valuers specializing in antique cameras, scientific and medical instruments, and other optics. We’ve teamed up with...
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Simple But Sophisticated – the Leica M6
Taking a photo with a Leica seems to be some sort of ritual. The moment you buy a Leica camera you join a cult for which Henri Cartier Bresson is the spiritual leader and the red dot serves as the...
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Franka Solida II-R – Shooting a Classic 120 Folding Camera from 1959
Like many who make the choice to return to film from digital, I soon decided to switch from 35mm to medium format. Many others have made this switch as well, pushing the price of quality medium format...
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Reverse Lens Macro Photography – Intro and How To Guide
What if I told you that there’s a whole new world of photography out there waiting to be discovered, and only for a few dollars. That would be quite a proposition, right? And what if I told you it was...
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Funleader 18mm F/8 Cap Lens Review
It’s a lens. It’s a body cap. It’s a body cap lens! Yes, the Funleader Cap Lens, an 18mm F/8 focus-free lens, is all of that. It’s also an inexpensive toy for photo geeks who are looking to experiment...
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Holiday Gifts for Photographers – 2020 Edition
Hannukah begins in just three days, and Christmas is only two weeks away! But don’t panic. There’s still time to find the perfect gift for the photo geek in your life (or for yourself – I won’t judge)....
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Rescuing a Zeiss Ikon Nettar from the Trash
Okay, well it wasn’t going to be thrown away, but it was going to become spare parts. One thing I’ve been tasked with during my time working for Kamerastore.com in Finland is putting together the...
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Should I Sell My Leica? An Argument With Myself
I’m going to sell my Leica. I’m going to do it. And how many times have we said that? Enough times that I probably should. Right. List it then. … Go ahead. Do it. … I knew it. What do you mean you knew...
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Book Club – Seeing Clearly Through the Haze of Time – Yasuhiro Ogawa’s The...
Digital is truth and film is memory. For me, this is a simple way to describe the visuals of most photography I encounter. Digital images are crisp and fine. The images produced by digital cameras...
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Shooting one of the first 28mm lenses, the Enna Ultra-Lithagon
This is the story of the Enna Werk Ultra-Lithagon 28mm F/3.5, and the dawn of the age of wide-angle SLR lenses. these days, a 28mm prime lens may seem yawningly ordinary, but prior to 1953 no such...
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The Ghost of Christmas Past in Champagne Gold; or, a Story of the Olympus Stylus
Once upon a Christmas Eve, when I was around five years old, I awoke sometime in the middle of the night. It was hours yet until the rest of the family would wake up for our Christmas morning together....
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Favorite Cameras, Least Favorite Year – What We Shot in 2020
Photographers know a thing or two about perspective. Which is why I think that even though 2020 has been an unmitigated disaster, we should be able to find a few positives amidst the towering garbage...
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Our Ten Most Popular Posts in 2020
Over the last twelve months more than 3 million readers have enjoyed (hopefully) the words and images of Casual Photophile. That’s a readership number which I never expected when I began writing for...
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In Case You Missed It – Our Favorite Articles of 2020
This is the last article of our three-part 2020 recap week. If you’ve enjoyed this little trip through some of the best camera reviews and then the most popular articles on the site this year, that’s...
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