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25 July, 2021

Caffenol for Breakfast – My First Experiments with Homemade Developer – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

I had never really pursued caffenol seriously because some of the first examples photos I had seen were less than impressive. Frankly, the "unpredictable flaws in film are cool...

24 July, 2021

5 Frames with a Zeiss Contaflex Super and Berlin Kino 400 – By Dan Smouse

By Dan Smouse

I don’t know what I was doing or even where I first got my first glimpse of a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLR but I do remember in that moment I had to have one. I’m not sure how to de...

23 July, 2021

Ilford HP5+ at Adventurous ASAs – By Kieran Newman

By Kieran Newman

Ilford’s HP5+ is one of the industry standards for black and white film – an inexpensive 400 ASA emulsion available almost everywhere and used by almost everyone at some point i...

22 July, 2021

Returning to Film with a Canon, a Nikon and a Touch of GAS – By Simon Rikowski

By Simon Rikowski

I got my first camera in 1966, it was a plasticky grey Ilford Sprite. I took mostly terrible photos on this little camera, but some were quite good, capturing the look of the ti...

21 July, 2021

5 Frames of Miniature Nostalgia with an Exa 500 – By Peter Roberts

By Peter Roberts

My better half was recently and suddenly admitted to hospital with a previously unsuspected medical condition. I'm glad to say that she responded to treatment and was discharged...

20 July, 2021

16mm Film – Shooting Subminature Film in 2021 – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

The best camera is the one you have with you. Now we have camera phones that fit in our pockets: back in the 1950s cameras were larger and were made of materials that were compa...

20 July, 2021

NEWS: Negative Supply Light Meter LM1 – Kickstarter launch

By Josh Foster

Yesterday, Negative Supply launched a new Kickstarter campaign for an elegant and very useful looking digital incident light and colour meter - the Light Meter LM1. The campaign...

19 July, 2021

‘Cool Retro Cameras’ – The Nikon Z Fc – Just ‘Cool’? Or Something More?

By Hamish Gill

I was asked the other day to share my thoughts on the ongoing retro camera design trend for an article that has since been published on Lifewire, titled ‘What’s with all these C...

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ian bromehead on Mamiya C330 Review – The hunt for the perfect 6×6 – By Anton McCloud
Great article and comments I read all including yours Ray so "mine may never be read" is less true than…
Nick Orloff on Breathing New Life into Old Cameras – The Ausgeknipst Story
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Hamish Gill on Leica Monochrom (M9M) review – for the love of black and white
Yes they do work. With your setup, do you have the camera set to auto white balance - I wonder…

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