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15 September, 2019

5 frames with a Canon Demi 28 – By Steve Karsten

By stevekars

On a wing and an ebay-prayer I scored a near-mint version of this lovely little half frame camera from mid 60’s Japan, and about a month later it arrived on my doorstep in Michi...

14 September, 2019

One Shot: Inchindown – Worcester Photo Walk and Film Showing

By Hamish Gill

I'm organising a Worcester Photo Walk followed by a showing of Simon & Dave's One Shot: Inchindown at The KilnWe will meet at 13:00 at The Kiln, go for a photo walk around the c...

14 September, 2019

5 Frames with a Hasselblad 503CX – By James Greenoff

By James Greenoff-Cairns

I'll admit it. I repurpose content from my blog into 5 Frames posts for 35mmc. That's what this post was going to be, a reworking of a recent post about my Hasselblad. While dra...

13 September, 2019

Topcon RE Super vs. Miranda Sensorex – By Stuart Jenkins

By Stuart Jenkins

Open-aperture TTL metering was pretty standard when I started using 35mm SLRs in the Eighties, but back in the Sixties it was a Big New Thing. These two cameras, the Topcon RE S...

12 September, 2019

5 Frames with a Nikkor 50mm F1.4 on the Olympus Pen-FT – By Tiffany Perez

By Tiffany Perez

If you have read any of my other posts to this site, I am a big advocate of stretching outside your comfort zone. Most of the time this involves trying out new film stocks (whic...

11 September, 2019

5 frames with Kodak Instamatic 500 – By Sergio Palazzi

By Sergio

In a previous post, I didn't mention that my very first personal camera is the Kodak Instamatic 155x that Dad brought me during a summer camp in 1972. After six years of school ...

10 September, 2019

5 frames with an Industar-61 L/D 55mm f/2.8 – By Dan Dodd

By Dan Dodd

I had just bought my first rangefinder lens, an uncommon Japanese one from the fifties. The long wait until it would pass the German bureaucratic nightmare that is the Zollamt (...

9 September, 2019

Pentax Espio 80 Review – My Summer Holiday Snapper

By Hamish Gill

The Pentax Espio 80 is a camera that suckered me in purely because of the way it looks. To my eye, it has a bit of a Functionalist aesthetic. There’s no frills, it’s just a rect...

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