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17 January, 2018

5 (4 underexposed) frames with a Leica M-A and 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1

By Hamish Gill

Ok, I'm cheating, this isn't 5 frames it's 4. But I only took 4, and they make a nice set... These were taken last summer in a bar in Waterloo at a Beers & Cameras meetup with m...

16 January, 2018

5 Frames with a 135 adapted Holga – By Lucas H

By Lucas H

I honestly don’t remember when or where I first came across the 35mm Holga adapter. The lime-green spacers had been 3D printed by a friend months previous, quickly relegated to ...

11 January, 2018

5 Frames with a Pentax Spotmatic and Kominar 28mm/3.5 – By Toni Skokovic

By Toni Skokovic

Sometimes we get pockets of time, and these create adventures, discoveries. On a recent trip to North Carolina, decided to take a detour to a local camera store and see what the...

10 January, 2018

5 Frames with a Leica Standard & Voigtlander 28mm f/3.5

By Hamish Gill

This Leica is the camera in my collection that seems to raise the most eyebrows. I’m going to write about using it properly sometime, but briefly, the questions I get aske...

9 January, 2018

5 Frames with a Leica CL and Jupiter-8 – By Simon King

By Simon King

I’ve gone through a handful or so of Leica CL cameras, which is more than I expected to when I first started photography. Film was never my area, so when I bought my first...

4 January, 2018

5 Frames with a Nikon FM3A and Nikkor 50mm f1.2 AIS – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

It was a week before Christmas back in 2006- I'd had a few pints and was in a panic to buy my wife a Christmas present- something that wasn't perfume for once. I then remembered...

3 January, 2018

5 Frames with a Leica M typ 262

By Hamish Gill

I’ve only had this camera for around a week, and haven’t formed any particularly strong opinions about it yet – but did think a 5 Frames post would give me a...

2 January, 2018

5 frames with a Canon Av-1 and a Elicar 28mm f2.8 – A.K.A. “Don’t think, React” – by Gael Berthon

By Gael Berthon

I was looking for a 35mm f2.8 for my Canon A1. After telling a friend about it, he sent me a Wallapop offer from a guy selling a Canon Av-1 with a M42 35mm f2.8 and a FD to M42 ...

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Ibraar Hussain on Ensign Selfix 820 and a roll of FP4+ in Birmingham
Lovely photography Nice tone detail and composition It’s a camera I’ve been looking at for quite a while Lovely engineering…
Ibraar Hussain on On Grief and Capturing Memories
Delightful yet sad reflection on life and memories. I wish I could've captured every instant of my Dad in waking…

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