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Celebrating one year of the new DanFinnen.com

October 10, 2014 By Dan Finnen

Well, I guess I can’t call it the ‘new’ danfinnen.com anymore. It’s hard to believe, but the current WordPress-powered version of my site is now one year old today. I officially started writing articles about photography on my site in 2011, and back then I never would’ve thought that it would become anything more than […]

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Photo Galleries are back up!

November 20, 2013 By Dan Finnen

The last big missing piece of the site after the update is back online! You can now find all my old photo collections on the photo gallery page. I’ll be posting some new gallery stuff soon, but feel free to take a look around. I suggest starting out with my Portfolio, Heaven, and the Disposables.

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New Article Alert: The Early Films, Failures and Triumphs of the Impossible Project

November 15, 2013 By Dan Finnen

When I was revamping this site, I had to pretty much re-create ever single article and review I had written before. Staring at a whole mess of film reviews for Impossible Project generations that had long ceased to be sold, I felt like it was insane to recreate them all on the new site. However, […]

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New Article: Dan’s Top Ten Tips for Growing Up Hard of Hearing

November 6, 2013 By Dan Finnen

Dan’s Top Ten Tips for Growing Up Hard of Hearing is an article that I wrote nearly a year ago, but until now, really didn’t have anywhere to put online. I passed it around to a few audiologists and hard of hearing people, but now it has a home on my site. Enjoy! Speaking of […]

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Welcome to the new DanFinnen.com

October 26, 2013 By Dan Finnen

Welcome to DanFinnen.com 3.0! This site started many years ago as a flat personal webpage that looked like garbage (too much red!) When I graduated from college in 2011, I tentatively started adding articles and reviews about photography, which quickly expanded in popularity and became the reason 99% of people came to the site. The […]

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Recent Articles

  • Fuji Instax Instant Film Camera Buying Guide
  • Dan’s Guide to Buying New and Used Polaroid Cameras
  • Instax Square SQ1 and SQ40 Camera Guide

Recent Reviews

  • Polaroid Now+ (Plus) Gen 3 Instant Camera Review
  • Boox Palma Android e-Reader Review
  • Nikon Z6 III Camera Review – From a Z6 I Owner’s Perspective
  • Fuji Instax Wide 400 Instant Film Camera Review
  • Nikon N80 35mm Film SLR Camera Review

Recent Blog Posts

  • New: Polaroid Now+ Gen 3 Reviews
  • New: Travel Gallery
  • Why I don’t review ‘hybrid’ ‘film’ ‘cameras’
  • New: Nikon Z6 III Review
  • Updated: Polaroid and Instax Buying Guides

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About Me

I’m a writer, photographer, co-owner of Polymyth, host of the Chicago Writers Podcast, Super Gear Land, and more. You can reach me at hello (at) danfinnen.com.

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