Konica FT-1 (1983)
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This is the Konica FT-1, a 35mm SLR produced by the Konica Corporation of
Japan between the years 1983 and 1987. The FT-1 is often referred to as
the FT...
New Photobooks Released this Spring
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These five new publications spotlight some of the most prominent figures
working in photography, alongside exciting emerging voices in the space.
The po...
Michael O. Snyder – Alleghania
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Review by Brian O’Neill · Alleghania: A Central Appalachian Folklore
Anthology is Michael O. Snyder’s first major monograph, published in 2025
by The Bitte...
Review: Samyang 35mm 1.2 XP
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Introduction In 2019 Samyang relesased this Samyang 35mm 1.2 XP. At that
time, I honestly didn’t care much about it, because Sigma also released
their Si...
Minolta 16 QT, a film test, and a Liverpool Walk
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Though this is a post about the Minolta, I have decided to start from the
beginning. It will be like… Read more Minolta 16 QT, a film test, and a
Liverpool...
Favourite Cameras: Nikon F55
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Is plastic “fantastic?” Sometimes. But often plastic is just plastic —
cheap, fragile, and nasty. I was on the hunt for a Nikon 28-80 kit lens to
mate wi...
How the compact film camera returned from the dead
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[image: Pentax 17 and Lomography LOMO MC-A (Pic: Stephen Dowling)]By
Stephen Dowling A decade ago, few would have placed a bet on a raft of new
premium com...
電影土著宣言Indigenous Cinéma Manifesto
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文——孫松榮
關於高重黎,其作品與書寫在台灣藝術脈絡中始終顯得「不合時宜」。無論置於哪一個時代,他的創作總顯露出獨特且難以輕易歸類的存在感。
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Indigenous Cinéma Manifesto first appeared on Voices of Photograph...
St. Petersburg 1
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In 2012 we spent the better part of two days in St. Petersburg, Russia.
This is a description of Day 1 with photographs of the highlights of that
day, of...
March 19: Stance
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There is a characteristic and telling moment in the story of Viva Gibb’s
political poster Popondetta 1943 (1978) — a searing silkscreen about the
wartime h...
Edixa 16-S
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Edixa 16-S
Before Kodak introduced the 110 cartridge format in 1972, one of the great
issues of subminiature film cameras was the proprietary cassette: wi...
Last Post Ever on TypePad
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Well, this is it—the last-ever TOP post on TypePad. TypePad is scheduled to
close down tomorrow, although who knows what will happen and when. We'll
all se...
Rainbow Water
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This is an interesting technique, and works with any image where parts
of the image move, but a large part of the image remains stationary. It has
alw...
Emerald Drifters: Reviewed by Madeleine Morlet
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Book Review Emerald Drifters Photographs by Cig Harvey Reviewed by
Madeleine Morlet “In the last few hundred years, science has worked hard to
convince us...
Ensign Midget model 2
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The Ensign Midget model 2 is a compact camera with a fascinating history.
Made in 1934, it features an Ensar lens, leaf shutter, and a folding
viewfinder. ...
In Conversation With: Stephan Jahanshahi
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Stephan Jahanshahi is an Iranian-American artist based in Los Angeles. A
graduate of the School of Visual Arts Photo, Video and Related Media MFA
progra...
WMA Award Spotlight: Kurt Tong
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Around the beginning of the Qin Dynasty (circa 1640s), in the Shunde area
of South China, thanks to the booming silk trade, sectors of women became
finan...
Capture One and the Fujifilm GFX 50S (Final)
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The final workflow update for the GFX 50S and Capture One
A surprise announcement by Capture One at Photokina 2018 changed
everything! Starting with vers...
Francis Bacon and George Smiley
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Bill Brandt, Francis Bacon, Primrose
Hill, 1963 Francis Bacon didn’t like this portrait of him by Bill Brandt. I
can’t t...
Scanning Film with the GFX 50S
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Using a digital medium format camera to scan medium format film. What could
go wrong? After bringing home freshly developed 120 format film, I looked
at ...
Home Brew Focus Helicoids
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For a die-hard DIY lens fanatic, focus helicoids are indispensable. I have
written a few posts on this subject, and a DIY post on converting the
Vivitar 2...
Critically acclaimed Chinese photographer Fan Ho spent the 1950s and 60s taking gritty and darkly beautiful photos of street life in Hong Kong. His photographs, to be published in his new book “Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir“, reach back through time and space to connect us to the everyday sights of this bustling metropolis in a way that many of us have never seen before.
Ever since Ho moved to Hong Kong from Shanghai in 1949, he has been documenting these special everyday moments. But the challenges (and superstitions) he faced then were quite different from those faced by photographers today; “With a knife in his hand, a pig butcher said he would chop me. He wanted his spirit back,” Ho told the South China Morning Post.