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Jimmy taking a picture on a medium format camera, with a building behind with red paint on.

15 June, 2024

One Photographer and Two Cameras for Spares & Repairs

By Joel Rouse

My last article, Two Photographers, One Camera, and the Crushing Disappointment of Film, attracted a fair amount of comments—encouraging and not-so-encouraging. The results from...

13 June, 2024

Grain, Glorious Grain! – T-Max 3200 pushed to 6400

By Denis Lafrance

Ever since I started photography, when digital was not even a dream, I always love the effect of film grain. It always felt as if it was made by an artist, albeit a chemical one...

12 June, 2024

How to (Unconventionally) Shoot Track and Field Competitions

By Andrea Monti

Having been given a LOC pass for the European Athletics Championships currently taking place in Rome, I was able to practice unusual compositions in sports photography. Usually,...

10 June, 2024

5 frames with a Nikon FM2 & Kentmere 400 pushed to 3200

By Máté Krausz

I am definitively a newcomer when it comes to film photography. Apart from a few rolls taken with point-and-shoot cameras as a child, I was shooting only digital until I picked ...

8 June, 2024

5 frames with the Olympus XA that were ruined by the addition of my finger

By Joseph Irvin

There seems to be a lot of love for the Olympus XA (and its sequels) on this site. I’m not here to add to that. Sure, it’s a fine camera with a lens that is very sh...

7 June, 2024

5 Unintended frames with Agfa APX100 (and an OM4-Ti)

By Roger

The sun was shining and my wife and I went out for a walk we had long intended to do, round the perimeter of a local Common. Nothing dramatic, but it was a walk we had not done ...

6 June, 2024

Rolleicord Vb, a roll of Portra 400 and the Reggia di Venaria

By Massimiliano Grivetti

After the first test of my Rolleicord Vb with Ilford HP5, I wanted to try a color film, and my choice fell on Kodak Portra 400, a film considered a milestone by many. The cloudy...

5 June, 2024

FOMO – Taking my Favourite Image of the Year

By Max Tiraquon

Fear of missing out as a photographer comes in many guises, shall I take colour or black and white film, primes or zooms etc etc. In this case I was planning to shoot a specific...

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