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16 December, 2025

Hedeco Spot One Review – New Compact Spot Meter Launched on Kickstarter

By Hamish Gill

Hedeco have just launched a Kickstarter campaign for their new Hedeco Spot One spot meter. This is a brand new, compact sized, well featured spot meter that’s been designed to m...

15 December, 2025

Chroma Camera CubePan – A Review, and my Journey into Panoramic Photography

By Steve Abbott

So despite having a number of cameras (all film) – three Leica rangefinders (don’t judge!), a Leica SLR, bought for a specific purpose, which I don’t use any more an...

12 December, 2025

Ricoh FF-9SD Limited – Travails of a Transparent Camera in Central Asia

By Keith A Yeo

My grandfather had many cameras, he kept them in an old 1980s dry box, and it was only when he was spluttering with edema from his congestive heart failure did we even talk abou...

11 December, 2025

Panasonic C—D 2200 ZM – Round Two

By Tony Warren

Panasonic C-D 2200 ZM, repairing light leak

10 December, 2025

Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4 – A Demanding Use Case

By Andrea Monti

For shooting Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at Teatro Marrucino, I took a Carl Zeiss Jena 135/4 lens as a backup for long shots. Master Adriano Lolli replaced the origina...

9 December, 2025

Leica M3 – Becoming an Owner in 2025: Romance, Reality, and a Very Shiny Viewfinder

By Tony Page

In 2025, it feels like everyone has an opinion on film photography. For some, it is nostalgia, for others it is a TikTok trend, for a few it is a fully fledged cult. Somewhere b...

8 December, 2025

Nikon 200mm Medical-Nikkor – A Vintage Macro Lens with Built-in Ring Flash

By Dan Cuny

I am a lifelong Nikon fan and own a variety of Nikon cameras. I have very vivid memories of working in a camera store in the mid-to-late 1970s, where I spent almost 20 years. Th...

6 December, 2025

VEIL – a campaign to publish my book

By Lubomir Drapal

When I started shooting film ten years ago, it wasn’t about returning to the past. It wasn’t nostalgia. It was more of an attempt to approach photography differently — without t...

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