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June 28, 2019

Searching for Heimat with Kodak Film and a Nikon N60

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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…

Jeb Inge
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May 29, 2019

Why I Shoot Film (Even Though You Didn’t Ask)

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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…

Craig Sinclair
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May 20, 2019

My Darkroom Ritual – Making Twenty-Six Prints in 2019

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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…

Cory Miller
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May 15, 2019

Photography versus Art, Rinse, Repeat

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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…

Craig Sinclair
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April 26, 2019

Where Have All the High ISO Color Films Gone?

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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…

Charlotte Davis
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March 13, 2019

I Called the Contax T2 Overrated, This Reader Disagreed

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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…

James Tocchio
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February 6, 2019

How I Improved My Photography in Five Simple Steps – Step One: Fail to get Pregnant

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I went from being someone who knows almost nothing about photography to being someone who knows a little bit about photography by following these five simple steps. This isn’t a roadmap for everyone, but it…

James Tocchio
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Opinion

January 25, 2019

This is the Best Camera Condition Description I’ve Ever Seen

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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…

James Tocchio
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Opinion

January 1, 2019

My Photographic New Year’s Resolution – What’s Yours?

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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…

James Tocchio
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Opinion

December 23, 2018

Leica? More like Lies! Lies…ca? Or Something?

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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…

James Tocchio
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November 7, 2018

Why the Zeiss ZX1 Has Got Me All Jazzed Up

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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…

James Tocchio
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July 20, 2018

The Essentials – A Guide to the Best of Minolta’s Camera Systems

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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…

Jeb Inge
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July 8, 2018

Five Lessons I’ve Learned in Five Years of Shooting a Different Camera Every Week

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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;…

James Tocchio
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June 25, 2018

The Essentials – A Guide to the Best of Nikon’s Camera Systems

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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…

Josh Solomon
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