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19 September, 2019

5 frames with a Kodak Tele-Instamatic 608 – By Will Hopkins

By willhopkins

The Kodak Tele-Instamatic 608 is an odd bird. To begin with, it uses 110 cassettes, most commonly associated with toy cameras. It looks like a spy camera, as compact as possible...

18 September, 2019

5 Frames with a Holga 120 GFN and Ilford Delta 3200 – By Bill Thoo

By Bill Thoo

The amazing detail and quality of a Holga photograph brought me back to film photography. A cousin introduced me to the Lomography movement in 2010 and I shot a dozen rolls with...

17 September, 2019

5 Frames with the Mamiya 6 and the 75mm f3.5 – by Aloysius Chow

By aloysiuschow

I started shooting film a couple years back when I got a Nikon F80 for cheap. As a SLR with autofocus, it was pretty easy to use and made shooting film easy to pick up. Since th...

15 September, 2019

5 frames with a Canon Demi 28 – By Steve Karsten

By stevekars

On a wing and an ebay-prayer I scored a near-mint version of this lovely little half frame camera from mid 60’s Japan, and about a month later it arrived on my doorstep in Michi...

14 September, 2019

5 Frames with a Hasselblad 503CX – By James Greenoff

By James Greenoff-Cairns

I'll admit it. I repurpose content from my blog into 5 Frames posts for 35mmc. That's what this post was going to be, a reworking of a recent post about my Hasselblad. While dra...

12 September, 2019

5 Frames with a Nikkor 50mm F1.4 on the Olympus Pen-FT – By Tiffany Perez

By Tiffany Perez

If you have read any of my other posts to this site, I am a big advocate of stretching outside your comfort zone. Most of the time this involves trying out new film stocks (whic...

11 September, 2019

5 frames with Kodak Instamatic 500 – By Sergio Palazzi

By Sergio

In a previous post, I didn't mention that my very first personal camera is the Kodak Instamatic 155x that Dad brought me during a summer camp in 1972. After six years of school ...

10 September, 2019

5 frames with an Industar-61 L/D 55mm f/2.8 – By Dan Dodd

By Dan Dodd

I had just bought my first rangefinder lens, an uncommon Japanese one from the fifties. The long wait until it would pass the German bureaucratic nightmare that is the Zollamt (...

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JA on Ausgeknipst Reels – Developing 16mm (or 110) in the Paterson tank
yeah, good idea. I once spent a frustrating ten minutes trying to thread a 120 backing paper onto a reel.…
Louis A. Sousa on Fujifilm X100VI – One Camera and 1½ Lenses for Travel – with a Pocket of Light
Sorry to post again but a correction from my mistake. I use the Nisi UV filter (not the Nisi lens…
Louis A. Sousa on Fujifilm X100VI – One Camera and 1½ Lenses for Travel – with a Pocket of Light
Great images with stunning colors. I have enjoyed the X100 series for many years. Often it is the only camera…

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