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Lost in Lviv: Photographing an Abandoned Ukrainian Wine Factory

July 14, 2020 in Entertainment, Film, Cameras, Popular, Lenses
Lost in Lviv: Photographing an Abandoned Ukrainian Wine Factory

A traveling photographer recruits is old pal to help document the exploration a small Ukrainian city, but the photogenic lure of an…

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Tags: Leica CL, Leica, Ukraine, slr, Agfa Vista 200, Voigtländer 15mm 4.5
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Do You Really Need a Hasselblad XPan?

February 18, 2020 in Cameras, Entertainment, Film, Lenses, Tips/Resources/Guides, Reviews
Do You Really Need a Hasselblad XPan?

The Hasselblad XPan is a legendary one-of-a-kind 35mm panoramic rangefinder worthy of its cult camera status, but at over $3,000 is it worthy of your money?

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Tags: Hasselblad, Pentax, Horizont, Horizon, Finland, Rangefinder, Panoramic, Point and Shoot, Pentax Espio 120SW, Lomography 800
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Expensive Rangefinder vs Affordable SLR - 40mm Leica Lens vs 45mm Carl Zeiss

October 26, 2019 in Cameras, Entertainment, Film, Lenses, Reviews
Expensive Rangefinder vs Affordable SLR - 40mm Leica Lens vs 45mm Carl Zeiss

In this video you can see the Leica Summicron-C 40mm f2 Leica M-mount lens compared to the Carl Zeiss Tessar 45mm f2.8 for Contax/Yashica mount…

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Tags: Kodak Ultramax 400, Serbia, Kodak, Leica M4-2, Leica Summicron-C 40mm f2, Contax 139 Quartz, Rangefinder, SLR, Contax, Leica
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90mm on a Rangefinder? [VIDEO] Shooting 28mm & 90mm in Belgrade, Serbia

October 01, 2019 in Cameras, Entertainment, Film, Lenses, Reviews
90mm on a Rangefinder? [VIDEO] Shooting 28mm & 90mm in Belgrade, Serbia

In this video my friend and I head out to Belgrade Fortress (built in 279 BC) in Serbia where we shoot two different Leica rangefinder setups. I chose to test out my new M-Rokkor 90mm f4 lens on…

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Tags: Leica M4-2, Serbia, M-Rokkor 90mm f4, Kodak Gold 200, Leica, Avenon 28mm f3.5
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An Interview & Visit with Carmencita Film Lab in Valencia, Spain

June 10, 2019 in Cameras, Film, Entertainment, Reviews
An Interview & Visit with Carmencita Film Lab in Valencia, Spain

Although the current film photography community is incredibly small, I often feel that those of us remaining hold a cumulative passion matching that possessed by tens of millions just a few decades ago when film was the…

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Tags: Spain, Leica
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Leica M4-2 | Belgrade | Agfa Vista 200 | Summicron-C 40mm f/2

April 06, 2019 in Lenses, Reviews, Tips/Resources/Guides, Film, Cameras

Most all Leica 40mm f2 Summicron-C lens reviews cover the same talking points, things like: most affordable Leica lens, body compatibility issues, awkward focal length, and undesirable bokeh. While these topics are all important…

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Tags: Leica, Rangefinder, Agfa Vista 200, Leica Summicron-C 40mm f2, Serbia, Leica M4-2
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Leica MDa | Stockholm | Kodak Ultramax 400 | Avenon 28mm f3.5 LTM

March 24, 2019 in Cameras, Film, Lenses, Reviews
Leica MDa | Stockholm | Kodak Ultramax 400 | Avenon 28mm f3.5 LTM

The Avenon 28mm f3.5 LTM lens come from a Japanese manufacturer called YK optical in Yokohama, which had a short history of only producing two lenses mainly under the name of KOBALUX, a 28mm f3.5 as well as the 21mm f2.8 LTM…

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Tags: Leica, Leica MDa, Avenon 28mm f3.5, Kodak, Kodak Ultramax 400, Sweden
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An Interview with Juho Leppänen - The History of Camera Rescue & How to Save 100,000 Film Cameras

February 16, 2019 in Cameras, Entertainment, Film, Tips/Resources/Guides
An Interview with Juho Leppänen - The History of Camera Rescue & How to Save 100,000 Film Cameras

In this video, Cameraville travels to Finland to sit down with Juho Leppänen of Camera Rescue and take an inside look at their goal of saving 100,000 analog cameras by 2020. Leppänen details what is means to 'rescue a camera' …

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Tags: Finland
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Eagle Hills Construction & Train Station Destruction - Belgrade, Serbia - 2017

Eagle Hills Construction & Train Station Destruction - Belgrade, Serbia - 2017

Anomaly on the River - The Belgrade Waterfront Project

January 24, 2019

Through my film photography I try to seek out the balance and imbalance of modernization vs preservation through architecture. Every few weeks for the last year and a half I have been traveling to Belgrade, Serbia documenting…

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Tags: Serbia
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Horizon 202 | Tampere | CineStill 800T

January 20, 2019 in Cameras, Film, Lenses, Reviews

The Horizon 202 doesn’t have any panoramic optics, it has panoramic mechanics. The Horizon 202 has a traditional 28mm f/2.8 prime lens, housed in mechanics which together categorize the Horizon as a swing-lens panoramic…

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Tags: Finland, Horizon 202, Cinestill 800T
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Leica VS Zorki plus FED VS Elmar | Balatonfenyves | Agfa Vista 200

January 07, 2019 in Cameras, Lenses, Reviews, Film
Leica VS Zorki plus FED VS Elmar | Balatonfenyves | Agfa Vista 200

Turning the knob one can feel a pleasing steady resistance of the multiple gears working together, turning the transport sprocket and take up spool, gently pulling the film out from the canister and along the focal plane, like a…

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Tags: Zorki, Rangefinder, FED, Zorki 1c, Hungary, FED 50mm f3.5, Agfa Vista 200
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Nikon Rangefinder Film Cameras (1948 - 2005)

January 05, 2019 in Tips/Resources/Guides, Entertainment, Cameras

In the middle of the 20th century at possibly the height of rangefinder camera popularity, Nikon did something amazing, releasing 8 variants of their flagship Nikon rangefinder camera in just 12 years- a feat only matched by the…

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Tags: Rangefinder, Nikon
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