Alex Luyckx

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Alex LuyckxReviewsCamera Tales No.11 – Sony a6000 Don’t say I didn’t try mirrorless, because I used a mirrorless camera as my primary digital camera for almost five years before going back to an SLR.

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Alex LuyckxReviewsExtreme Film Test No. 12 – Ilford Delta 400 What surprised me the most about this one is that there is no listed time for Delta 400 and Diafine. But not every film can respond to Diafine, which is okay.

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Alex LuyckxReviewsThe Sequel(ish) | Toronto Film Shooters Meetup Last year I hosted a CCR Anniversary photo walk and brewery tour . And the event had an excellent turnout, but it also was on a hot day- a dangerously hot day and I had to call it when we were barely…

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Alex LuyckxReviewsClassic Camera Revival – Episode 234 | All The New Things It’s been a hot minute since we’ve talked about our own personal GAS. So the team sits down to share some of their new toys, lenses, cameras, film, and apps they’ve picked up so far this year.

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Alex LuyckxReviewsBetween Darkness & Light | Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary I love a good old prison, and when it comes to prisons, Brushy Mountain is everything that you would expect from an American penitentiary built in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

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Alex LuyckxReviewsOptical Review Blog No. 61 – Auto Miranda 1:2.8 f=35mm If there is one focal length that is useful in almost every camera system, I have found it to be 35mm; it offers something close to what we see as humans, though slightly narrower.

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Alex LuyckxReviewsSail Away | Museum Ships Don’t worry, this isn’t a post about new-age music . Back in August, I had the chance to tour one of Canada’s museum ships again; we don’t have many, especially here in Ontario.

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Alex LuyckxReviewsClassic Camera Revival – Episode 233 | Summer Book Report With everyone settled back in school, we decided it was time to hand out a bit of homework and have them do a summer book report.

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Alex LuyckxReviewsCamera Tales No.10 – Graflex Crown Graphic I knew, I just knew that one day I would end up here with a large format camera. You could say I was influenced by the Film Photography Project and one of their hosts specifically.

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Alex LuyckxReviewsExtreme Film Test No. 11 – Kodak Tri-X 400 When it comes to Tri-X, I’ve always seen this film as having a wide latitude. I have since learned that the new formulation, 400TX, first released in 2007, isn’t as good as the pre-2007 version…

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo