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The New Film Camera from Pentax is a Half Frame Compact – Details!
Ricoh imaging has just announced that the first camera in their Pentax Film Project will be a half-frame 35mm film camera. The camera will feature automatic and manual functions, zone focus, a lens...
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Ichi-Go Ichi-E with the Fujifilm Instax Square SQ1
This is hard to say without sounding pretentious, but when I was working in Japan some years ago, I became interested in Zen Buddhism and in particular, the life of Sen no Rikyū, a 16th-century tea...
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Meet the PolaFlex, a Custom-Made Polaroid TLR by Douwe Krooshof
In September, 2023, when the Polaroid I-2 finally came out, my expectations were sky high. But the first reviews left me disappointed. A plastic lens? A viewfinder camera? Manual control only via a...
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New York City and the Half-frame 35mm Olympus Pen D
It was the winter of my discontent, made awful by leaden skies and the prospect of no work on the horizon. As a freelancer, my gigs are highly seasonal, and I found myself at the end of last holiday...
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In Praise of Bad Photographs
While looking back through a fat binder full of negatives, I came to a realization: most of these photographs are bad. This was demoralizing. I must be some kind of photographic failure. Here are...
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Keks KM-Q OLED Light Meter Review
When I reviewed the Keks Camera KM02 OLED light meter back in 2022, I called it “the best $100 shoe-mount light meter on the market.” But it wasn’t without problems. I mostly disliked that the buttons...
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In Search of a Filmic Digital Sensor
As the price of film and development costs rise, my mind is less often drawn to the dwindling stock of film in the fridge, and more often to what happens next. I am not alone in this. As users search...
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Single Shot Stories No. 012 – Skateboard by Jeff Greenstein
Photographer: Jeff Greenstein Camera: Pentax MF Lens: 28mm F/2.8 Pentax SMC Film: FPP Color 125 (Svema) This shot is both strange and serendipitous and I have to venture deep in the weeds to explain...
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Beginner’s Guide to Ilford Delta 400
It’s time for another five-minute film review. These articles are made to help new film photographers pick a film and have success shooting it. Today we’re looking at Ilford Delta 400, one of the most...
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Beginner’s Guide to Underwater Film Photography
For beginners, shooting film can be a challenge. But shooting film underwater? The learning curve swings up exponentially when you add in variables of constantly changing light, the vagaries of scale...
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Single Shot Stories No. 013 – Polaroid Colour Swinger by Ronnie Brandon
Camera: Polaroid Colour Swinger Lens: Polatriplet 114mm f/9 Film: Polaroid SX-70 B&W (yellow filter for effective ISO 80, ejected in 636CL for chemical spread) Location: Ruthin, North Wales, UK...
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Five Best Films for Underwater Photography
Though my grandparents lived in New Jersey, their cellar transported me to the mountains of Afghanistan, the heart of the Congo and the depths of the Pacific. They were avid collectors of National...
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Outrageous ISO: Digital Concert Photography at the Upper Limits of Low Light
I dislike editing photos. Raw files are large and cumbersome. The process is tedious and time consuming. I have negative tendencies towards obsessive perfectionism. Thankfully, my love for photography...
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Lens Review: Pergear 35mm F/1.4 – Super Fast, Stunningly Inexpensive
To shoot a fast 35mm lens on any of today’s mirror-less cameras isn’t cheap. Nikon’s fast 35mm f/1.8 Z mount lens costs $849. Canon’s costs $499. Sony’s 35mm f/1.4 costs over a thousand bucks....
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Five Cheap (but Very Good) Film Cameras You Can Buy Today
People complain to me every day that film cameras (especially those suited for beginners) have become too expensive. I’ve been writing about cameras for ten years, shooting a different model every...
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Fujifilm Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R Review
When I first bought into the Fuji X-mount system, the XF 56mm was the first lens I got. I was excited to have such a fast prime lens in the 85mm equivalent focal length, and the bokeh possibilities of...
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GRAMS28 172 Camera Sling – Gear Review
Grams28 recently sent us their 172 Camera Sling, a sleek, stylish, and compact camera bag. The day that it arrived, I loaded it with gear for a day trip to Wellfleet, Massachusetts, a small town which...
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Hands On with the Pentax 17 – the New Film Camera from Pentax
I’ve spent the past month shooting the first new Pentax film camera to be released in nearly 20 years. It’s called the Pentax 17, and my time with it has left me with a lot of beautiful pictures and...
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Pentax MX Review – The Mazda Miata of 35mm SLRs
Circling the neighborhood for the 25th time looking for parking, I see a Mazda Miata NA back into the one available spot, one that my car could not fit into. The Miata represents one major ethos of...
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Exploring the Edinburgh Fujifilm Photo Trail with a Yashica T4 and Fuji...
In 1993 Fujifilm and the Edinburgh Tourist Board published a booklet titled The Fuji Phototrail of Edinburgh. The idea was brilliant in its simplicity: to provide visitors with a route to visit 25...
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