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3 December, 2019

5 Frames with a 35mm Curtagon Shift Lens – by Christian Schroeder

By Christian Schroeder

If you know me, you know that I love shift lenses. This summer, I expanded my repertoire with an old 35mm Curtagon for my Leicaflex SLR camera. I am going to talk a little bit a...

1 December, 2019

5 Frames with the Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16 – By Eric Norris

By Eric Norris

Prompted by a very good experience with a new-to-me Mamiya C Professional TLR, my internet searches recently turned toward medium format cameras. I hunted around for relatively ...

30 November, 2019

5 Frames with the Yashica 635 and Kodak Portra 400 – By Lee Butterley

By Utterlee

I’ve had my Yashica-635 twin lens reflex camera for 20 years, my parents found it for me at a car boot sale. I’ve not used it that much, and until last month I’d never even put ...

28 November, 2019

5 Frames with Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 II, Minolta CLE & Leica Summicron-C 40mm f/2 – Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

Neopan Acros 100 had always been one of my favourite film stocks, right up until it was discontinued about two years ago. Acros 100 was contrasty, rendering rich blacks and acce...

28 November, 2019

5 Frames Skiing with a Zeiss Ikon Nettar – Andy Larner

By Andy Larner

I found my perfect Ski camera. It's light, small and great for Landscapes oh by the way it's a medium format 6x6 folding bellows camera from the 1950's. Obviously! The camera ta...

24 November, 2019

5 Frames With the runt of the litter: The Olympus XA1 – Brian Nicholls

By MrSnappy

The Olympus XA1 was ntroduced in 1982. This little gem of a clamshell 35mm compact was the simplest and cheapest of the XA series. It has a fixed-focus f/4 to f/22 x 4 element Z...

23 November, 2019

5 Frames by Candlelight: 0.5-4s Exposures on Ilford HP5+ at EI 800 – by Simon King

By Simon King

We've reached the season of pushing film; early nights begin to encroach, and rain clouds diffuse the day. This time last year I started to play with Delta 3200 for everyday use...

23 November, 2019

5 Frames With FPP Retrochrome 400 – by Simon King

By Simon King

Slide film is a very difficult concept for me, as my experience of it so far has been the options currently in production - quite a bit more expensive than negative film, and fe...

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