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27 October, 2021

Ensign Selfix 820 with One Roll of Fomapan 100 – by Steve Phillips

By Steve Phillips

A year ago, on holiday in Cornwall, I took a box camera with me on a coastal walk, and published the results here. One year on, and a camera or two later, here we go again. This...

26 October, 2021

Minolta AF Reflex 500 Review – Letting the Cat Out of the Bag – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

This article is mainly a review of an unusual lens - Minolta AF Reflex 500 – one of the few Autofocusing Catadioptric lenses to be made. I also have a Korean-made manual focus ‘...

25 October, 2021

Contrast and Tonality Part 2: The Curves Tool, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Contrast – By Sroyon

By Sroyon

In Part 1 of this three-part series, I used histograms of famous photographs to introduce some fundamental ideas about contrast and tonality. In this part I’ll talk about ...

24 October, 2021

The Hyde Park South Carriage Drive Manège – by Simon King

By Simon King

Early this year, in February, I stepped out of travel quarantine and into a cold, mostly empty city, and spent a lot of my time searching for a space to allocate my time. I need...

23 October, 2021

5 Frames of Street Photography in Greenwich with a Minolta SRT-101b – By Peter Roberts

By Peter Roberts

For some time now my partner has been dropping heavy hints that she would like to try film photography. She would be the the first to admit, and she does, that she's no photogra...

22 October, 2021

NEWS: Pinsta – Instant Pinhole Camera, Micro Darkroom and Negative Enlarger – Launches on Kickstarter

By Hamish Gill

Pinsta, in instant pinhole camera, micro darkroom and negative enlarger has just this week launched on Kickstarter. This thing is cool! It is exactly what it sounds like: a pinh...

22 October, 2021

Samsung Slim Zoom 1150 Review: Good Results, Frustrating Experience – by Shawn Granton

By shawn granton

I haven't given much thought to the idea of Korean film cameras. Electronics, sure. Cars, OK. But cameras? I’m guessing there was some kind of domestic camera industry in South ...

21 October, 2021

5 Frames with Delta 3200 and a Nikon FE – By Jamie Winder

By Jamie Winder

I have a habit of picking up rolls of film that I’d like to try, without necessarily having a purpose in mind. Even once I’ve filled my airtight plastic tub, I buy more rolls fa...

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Art Meripol on Leica IIIa – Buying a Barnack Leica and enjoying it visiting Castles in the Loire Valley
I am in the process now of writing a blog for 35mmc on my new-to-me All Metal, all mechanical Contax…
Matthias Steck on Trying to capture traditional Albania on Silbersalz35 film – Part 1
Thanks for your comment. I liked the look of the film stock from the very beginning plus the stock is…
Matthias Steck on Trying to capture traditional Albania on Silbersalz35 film – Part 1
Thanks a lot. Silbersalz35 is a German based lab the sell, develop and scan Kodak Vision 3 film stock. You…

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