• 5 Frames with BCG PHC-50 (aka ORWO Tf12d)

  

  I’m fascinated by the idea of using unusual film stock to achieve a specific look. While shopping around online for Kodak Ektar 100, I stumbled upon a small, funky camera store in Nijmegen (Netherlands) that, in addition to the Ektar I was looking for, markets its own brand of film under the “Brownie Camera Guy” (BCG) mark.

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• 5 Frames of (Extremely Expired) Kodak Gold 200

  

  I got out of film something like 15 years ago. I can’t actually remember when precisely I put my film cameras down. My go-to color film was Fujicolor Superia 100—plentiful and cheap at the time.

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• Hiking the Uncanny Valley

  

  When creating this image, I sought a very specific aesthetic, one informed by years of enjoying video games. Indeed, friends have told me they thought this image was a highly detailed computer rendering.

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• Kyoei W.Acall 35mm LTM (on Fujifilm X-Pro3) Review - A Delightful Daily Walkaround Lens on APS-C

  

  I’m a street photographer with a preference for manual-focus 50mm-equivalent lenses. I got my start with a Zeiss Contax rangefinder (w/ 50mm Sonnar f/1.5) and Pentax MX SLR (w/ 50mm SMC Pentax-M f/1.

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• Industar-69 (on Fujifilm X-Pro3) Review - A Dreamy, Compact Wonder

  

  The Industar-69 (Индуста́р-69) is a strange but beguiling beast. Originally designed for the Chaika (Чайка) camera, it wasn’t really meant to be used with other cameras. The original Chaika’s lens wasn’t removable; on later models it was affixed with an M39 thread, apparently with the intent that photographers could mount it on an enlarger for printmaking.

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