Opinion

Searching for Heimat with Kodak Film and a Nikon N60
1981 1114 Jeb Inge

The German language is many things. It can be stubborn, demanding, exacting and rigid. It can also be strangely elegant and beautiful. Easy, it is not. It’s spoken in three countries, and its dozens of…

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Why I Shoot Film (Even Though You Didn’t Ask)
1491 839 Craig Sinclair

I bought a typewriter not long ago. If you look at Craigslist on a regular basis you’ll probably find one for cheap. When you find out the ink ribbon is old and dry you’ll discover…

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  • Craig Sinclair
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My Darkroom Ritual – Making Twenty-Six Prints in One Year
2800 1575 Cory Miller

The Ritual It’s late Sunday night and the wife and dog are asleep. A light snow is falling as I start a pot of coffee and pull from the bookshelf a binder of negatives. I…

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  • Cory Miller
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Photography versus Art, Rinse, Repeat
1799 1012 Craig Sinclair

Ansel Adams might have been the best photographer that ever was or ever will be. But he wasn’t an artist. A bold statement, and one that’s gotten me into trouble in the past. As argument, I offer…

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  • Craig Sinclair
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Where Have All the High ISO Color Films Gone?
2800 1575 Charlotte Davis

For my thirteenth birthday I was given a Canon Sureshot 105 Zoom camera and a booklet explaining, among other things, how to load the film, frame a photo correctly, and shoot without getting your fingers…

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  • Charlotte Davis
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I Called the Contax T2 Overrated, This Reader Disagreed
2800 1575 James Tocchio

Every Friday, I end the workweek by posting an Ask Me Anything on the site’s Instagram stories. Through these AMAs, readers of the site and customers of the shop get a chance to yell at…

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How I Improved My Photography in Five Simple Steps – Step One: Fail to Get Pregnant
1577 886 James Tocchio

Some years ago, I went from knowing almost nothing about photography to knowing a fair bit about photography. I did so by following these five simple steps. This isn’t a roadmap for everyone, but it…

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This is the Best Camera Condition Description I’ve Ever Seen
2800 1575 James Tocchio

There’s a running gag among the CP staff writers, and if you’re a camera collector or anyone who has spent some time browsing eBay for vintage cameras you’ll likely get the joke. It centers around…

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My Photographic New Year’s Resolution – What’s Yours?
2800 1575 James Tocchio

Today I woke up being kicked in the head. I did not get drunk last night on New Year’s Eve, and the foot that woke me with a kick is not a colorfully worded metaphor…

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Leica? More like Lies! Lies…ca? Or Something?
2400 1350 James Tocchio

When Ernst Leitz GmbH invented the M system in 1954, they named their first M camera the Leica M3 for a very good reason. The name M3 signaled to the unwashed masses that the camera…

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Why the Zeiss ZX1 Has Got Me All Jazzed Up
1369 776 James Tocchio

In my publicly visible role as a professional camera liker, people on the internet sometimes tell me I’m wrong about things. This happened just the other day when, in my excitement about an upcoming product…

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The Essentials – A Guide to the Best of Minolta’s Camera Systems
2400 1350 Jeb Inge

If you’ve chosen Minolta, welcome to The Cause. You’ve done some research and learned about the company that pioneered many of photography’s most important innovations. Autofocus, shutter-priority, in-body image stabilization, the list of now-common features…

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Five Lessons I’ve Learned in Five Years of Shooting a Different Camera Every Week
2400 1350 James Tocchio

I’ve shot a different camera every couple of days for the past five years. This comes with a unique set of delights and disappointments, surprises and frustrations (for every Contax T there’s a Kodak VR35;…

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The Essentials – A Guide to the Best of Nikon’s Camera Systems
2400 1350 Josh Solomon

We answer emails about recommending cameras and lenses every day, so we thought it might be helpful if we published brief guides to the most popular camera brands. These guides are not meant to be…

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