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

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

BCG PHC-50 (aka ORWO Tf12d, aka Film Washi S) is a high-contrast, ultra-low grain black and white film, and it might be my new favorite.

5 Frames of (Extremely Expired) Kodak Gold 200

5 Frames of (Extremely Expired) Kodak Gold 200

Ever seen film with a lime green base? Let's explore photography with extremely expired, badly stored consumer color film.

Hiking the Uncanny Valley

Essays Featured

Hiking the Uncanny Valley

I deliberately plunge myself into the Uncanny Valley—it's more work than I thought.

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

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

[Originally published on 35mmc.] 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/1.7), and loved the compact size, minimal feature set,

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

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

[Originally published on 35mmc.] 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,

Industar-50 (on Fujifilm X-Pro3) Review - The Joy of Flawed Lenses

Industar-50 (on Fujifilm X-Pro3) Review - The Joy of Flawed Lenses

[Originally published on 35mmc.] I had the good fortune to be wandering the Kazimerz neighborhood of Krakow, Poland, on a Saturday morning, where I stumbled upon a small but very interesting flea market. An American child of the 80s, I’ve always been fascinated with Soviet artifacts, and their cameras

A Post-Open Source World

A Post-Open Source World

Open source used to be about freedom. But capitalist forces has turned open source on its ear. How do we return to our roots as activists for a better world?

Open Source is Broken

Open Source is Broken

The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns. Openness, they claim, is an absolute good, from which all other virtues flow, not to be questioned or criticized. It doesn’t matter if that openness enables evil in the world, without openness we