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21 February, 2020

Canon Sure Shot Zoom XL Review – An Elegant Brute – By Mike Hannon

By Mike Hannon

I got into film photography shooting a nifty fifty on an Olympus OM body while I was on holiday. I don’t think I even had a battery for the meter. But according to Kirk Mastin’s...

18 February, 2020

Ricoh GRIII and GR1s Experience Comparison by a Film Agnostic – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

I am sure to get some grief about this piece given that my last article on the analog Ricoh GR1s ended with my resolution that I was not interested in buying a digital GR. Well,...

14 February, 2020

TTArtisan 21mm f/1.5 ASPH review – by Vincent Bihler

By vincentbihler

We are currently living a very exciting period of time. The lens market has been rencently opened with third party producers that are becoming better and better, often at a very...

10 February, 2020

Minolta 28mm f/3.5 G-Rokkor Review – Another Gem I’m Parting With

By Hamish Gill

I’ve owned this Minolta G-Rokkor 28mm f/3.5 for quite a while now - I had Bellamy find me one after I sold my Minolta TC-1 (also bought from Bellamy), the camera from which the ...

7 February, 2020

Kodak Tri-X Review – Five Decades and Counting of Praise – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

At the beginning of every new year, full of ambitious resolutions, I try to do some cleaning up at home, both physical and electronic. The physical does not achieve all that muc...

31 January, 2020

Fujifilm X-Pro3: First thoughts from a film shooter – By David Hume

By David Hume

As soon as I read about the Fuji X-Pro3 I thought, "Yeah, shut up and take my money." I bought the original X100 the day it hit my town, and I’ve been using an X-E2 for a couple...

27 January, 2020

SilverPan Film Lab – My Choice for Film Development Services

By Hamish Gill

I’ve been using SilverPan Film Lab for my film development for a little while now, and have been really very happy with the service I’ve received. Like everything in life, what ...

24 January, 2020

Instant Magny 35 Review – An Instax Headache! – By Hern Tan

By Hern Tan

Instax. For many, that word would conjure up images of kitschy, bulky cameras with plastic lenses, or some slightly better glass-equipped offerings from Lomography and MiNT, if ...

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