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2 April, 2018

Photographing Punks on Polaroid – by Simon King

By Simon King

I've always thought of myself as an outsider - I think a lot of photographers do. It makes it easier for us to introspect; to look at the world from a perspective a little more ...

1 April, 2018

Functionalist camera design, the Agfa 1035 and the Plaubel Makina 67

By Hamish Gill

The Agfa xx35 series of cameras (in this case the 1035) and the Plaubel Makina 67 are both wonderful examples of what what appears to be German functionalist industrial design. ...

31 March, 2018

The Sunbeams Analogue Photography News – The Photography Show 2018

By The Sunbeams

Hey there all you lovely people, it's us, back again to fill you in on what we've been up to over the last couple of weeks. I'm fuelled by too many Easter eggs and the ill-judge...

31 March, 2018

Canon EOS 33 Review – An overlooked treasure – By Benn Murhaaya

By Benn Murhaaya

Hamish’s recent foray into the world of SLRs with his project involving a Nikon F75 struck a chord with me. While I am big on compact cameras, I have quite a few of them that I’...

29 March, 2018

5 Frames With An Olympus Trip 35 – By Julian Higgs

By julianhiggs

The Olympus Trip 35 is a much vaunted little camera and has many admirers, me included. I feel like I came to the party late on this one. Having shot film pre-digital (there was...

28 March, 2018

Leicaflex Standard Review – by Jason S. Ganz

By Jason Ganz

The word Leica and film often brings up precision, manual operation, best-in-the-world optics, and ideations that shooting a Leica automatically makes one a professional – if no...

27 March, 2018

5 Frames with a Rolleicord IIA – by Tom O’Neill

By Tom O'Neill

At the beginning of this year I found myself in one of Japan's second hand camera shops. Wherein I fell in love with a Rolleicord II. It seemed as if it was meant to be for I ha...

25 March, 2018

‘Analogue Photography – Reference Manual for Shooting Film’ – a Strong Recommendation

By Hamish Gill

I don't write many book reviews on here - thank's to the allure of the dreaded internet, I'm no longer the book reader I used to be (short of the odd Thomas the Tank Engine et a...

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