The film vs. digital photography debate isn’t even a debate anymore. We can talk all day about megapixels, pixel peep at 300% magnification, discuss the difficulties of finding (and affording) good lab work, and read all the reviews about VSCO film emulations, but at the end of the day there is a clear winner in [...]

I recently bought and began refurbishing a Mamiya C220 TLR, pictured here as my daughter is using it. I had been looking for a Mamiya TLR for quite some time and was happy to find this one at an affordable price and in pretty good shape. Why, you might ask, would I buy a film [...]

I had a conversation today via Twitter with @rwboyer (website: http://photo.rwboyer.com ) regarding the “film-like-ness” of the X-Pro1 and digital cameras in general. First off, he’s a very cool cat and his passion for photography runs deep. I like that he obsesses about and discusses the important (to me) aspects of photography, such as light, [...]

One of the things I miss about shooting slide film is the ease of it. I’d load the film, shoot it, drop it off to be developed, and get the wonderful experience of viewing a few (hopefully) nice photos on the light table. I didn’t have to worry about highlight and shadow sliders, unsharp masks, [...]

Issue 2 of PHOTOGRAPH magazine by Craft and Vision has a great article by Al Smith on the X-Pro1 as a pro tool. Fair and reasoned observations by a photographer. I highly recommend the magazine as a whole but wanted to point out this well-written article. Keep in mind, I am merely a subscriber and [...]