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10 July, 2025

5 (plus one or three) Frames of Raglan Castle – A Return to Velvia with the Best Camera Ever Made.

By Richard Becker

The ruins of Raglan Castle dominate the landscape mid-way between Abergavenny and Monmouth in South Wales and will be familiar to anyone travelling the A40 between the towns. Th...

4 July, 2025

5 Dyptichs with an Olympus Pen EF

By Nicholas Johnson

For your consideration, an Olympus Pen EF. Released in 1981 this little camera makes me happy, let me tell you about its best qualities! The Pen EF has a nice little 28mm lens. ...

28 June, 2025

5 Frames with a Contax ST and Fujichrome Provia 100 at The Jurassic Coast

By Ibraar Hussain

(Title Picture: Man’O’War Cove. Dorset) I really like the Jurassic Coast which is part of the South Western Coast of England. It is a 95-mile stretch of shoreline in...

Pentax MX camera with a roll of Lomography Berlin 400 film

17 June, 2025

5 Frames after a Storm with a Pentax MX and Lomography Berlin 400

By Jason Hallen

National weather forecasts declared that my corner of Minnesota would develop the conditions for powerful tornadoes on Monday, April 28. My wife and I watched as storm clouds mo...

Photograph of a 35mm negative sheet filled with Kodak High Speed Infrared (HIE) negatives over a light table, with a Nikon FM film camera and deep red lens filter to the side.

1 June, 2025

5 frames Looking back at Kodak High Speed Infrared (HIE) through a Nikon FM

By Ben Wells

Kodak discontinuing its High Speed Infrared Black and White negative film – known as Kodak HIE – was, in my humble opinion, a far greater loss to the film photograph...

The Socol 2 Automat camera on the table of a street cafe

22 May, 2025

5 Frames with the Sokol-2 Automat – Closing the Soviet Gestalt

By Alex Gridenko

My interest in photography began over 20 years ago with the purchase of my first camera, a digital point-and-shoot Canon G5. However, to be precise, there was another camera I g...

15 May, 2025

5 frames with an Olympus Trip 35 and Kentmere 100

By Roger

The Olympus Trip 35 is a very widely sold and used camera, and having heard good things about it, I was happy when I recently acquired one, and I packed it on a trip to Paris. N...

9 May, 2025

5 Frames with a Large Format Camera – The Death of a Giant

By CHRISTOF RAMPITSCH

I didn’t know that this silo’s days were numbered, I just liked the baked, dusty “Wall-E” vibe – if you ignore the plants (there weren’t any on Wall-E’s earth). Although the Int...

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Nick Orloff on 5 (plus one or three) Frames of Raglan Castle – A Return to Velvia with the Best Camera Ever Made.
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