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5 October, 2022

5 Frames with a Bell & Howell Electric Eye 127 and Kodak Ektar 100 – by Stuart Jenkins

By Stuart Jenkins

The late 1950s saw a brief peak in the popularity of cameras taking twelve 4x4 cm images on 127 film. They offered better-than-35mm quality without the bulk of a 6x6 medium form...

4 October, 2022

[Another] 5 frames with Kodak Ultramax 400 & a Canon Sprint – By Michael Maliner

By Michael Maliner

In March of 2021, I found myself shooting film for the first time in many years. As mentioned in my prior “5 frames with…”, my earliest rolls were mostly about chasing the orang...

27 September, 2022

5 Frames with TMAX 100 – Learning to develop Black and White Film – by Alex Vye

By Alex Vye

One Christmas, early in my marriage, I ended up spending Christmas at my in-laws house, which was in a different city from the one I lived in. Due to a mix-up caused by the logi...

18 September, 2022

5 Frames with a (possibly broken) Hasselblad 500cm – By Philip Ahlquist

By Philip Ahlquist

The email from the lab came in two days before my long-planned holiday: “We are contacting you to let you know that your film has been processed, but unfortunately it has come ...

17 September, 2022

5 frames with a Hasselblad on the Camino de Santiago – By Daniel Morales

By Daniel Morales

A couple of years ago, having quit my job and with only 6kg of luggage I embarked myself on my first Camino de Santiago (also know as St. James Way in English), which would take...

14 September, 2022

5 Frames in Blaenavon with a Nikon L35AF – By Ellis Thomas

By Ellis Thomas

In 1980, a coal mine in the Welsh mining town of Blaenavon closed after 100 years of service. The site was reopened for visitors 3 years later in 1983, and has since remained a ...

11 September, 2022

5 frames with Rolleicord Vb in Iran – By Kamil Leszczuk

By Kamil Leszczuk

From fellow backpackers I’ve ever only heard great things about Iran and Iranians. Initially I was going to travel there in early 2020, however the pandemic shattered those plan...

10 September, 2022

5 frames with the Pentax Spotmatic and developed as Stand development – By Nick Ambrose

By Nick Ambrose

One of my more recent projects in the darkroom has been to explore further options on how to process my black and white film. I would in the past just follow the normal method o...

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Vincent on Introducing Frames – A New App to Log and Sync Film Photography Metadata
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Vincent on Introducing Frames – A New App to Log and Sync Film Photography Metadata
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Vincent on Introducing Frames – A New App to Log and Sync Film Photography Metadata
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