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22 April, 2022

Kodak Retina 118 – More Than a Camera – By Lisa Murphy

By Lisa Murphy

As a professional archivist, understanding the context and provenance of archival material is hugely important. When I look at my camera collecting, I have applied a similar cri...

18 April, 2022

TTArtisan Light Meter Review – The Cheapest of Its Kind – By Frankie Bina

By Frankie Bina

Shoe mounted light meters are slowly evolving, with different brands bringing new smaller and progressively more digital meters to the market. But the “analog” kind, with the sa...

15 April, 2022

ADOX Colour Mission 200 – A new colour negative film – By Phil Harrison

By Phil Harrison

For those of you who haven't heard of this film I'll start with Adox's sales copy: ADOX has released Color Mission - a film with delicately vibrant minty greens, peachy reds, a...

14 April, 2022

5 Analogue Zines You Should Try: Pt1 – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

I love photography books in all their guises - Monograph, Theory, Practical (although perhaps practical books feature less than the others) - but undoubtedly there are many grea...

11 April, 2022

TTArtisan 28mm f/5.6 Review – by Vincent Bihler, Dave Young and Hamish Gill

By vincentbihler

Unusually, this review has 3 authors. I (Hamish) was sent the TTArtisan 28mm f/5.6 lens to try a few months ago. Not long later, Vincent got in touch to say he was going to revi...

7 April, 2022

Leitz Elmar 10.5cm f/6.3 – The Berg – Pt 3 – By Agata Urbaniak

By Agata Urbaniak

The Leitz Elmar 10.5cm f/6.3 - Third time's the charm! Read the exciting conclusion of my search for a pocketable telephoto lens. Don't miss the comparison of all three lenses' ...

4 April, 2022

Doomo Meter S Review – Just Another OLED Light Meter…?

By Hamish Gill

The Doomo Meter S is a OLED screen readout counterpart to the Doomo Meter D. It’s smaller, USB chargeable, and only has one button and one dial. On paper it looks quite interest...

31 March, 2022

Chiyoko Tele Rokkor 11cm f/5.6 – The Molehill – Pt 2 – By Agata Urbaniak

By Agata Urbaniak

The Mountain Nikkor covered in part 1 of this short series is a pretty unusual lens but didn't quite fit the bill in terms of compact size. The quest for a pocketable telephoto ...

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Ibraar Hussain on Analogue (and analogue inspired) News and Tittle-Tattle – Newsletter July 2025
Only the thirds issue. May, June and now July If anyone has any news or anything tittle tattle related please…
Eric on Kentmere Pan 200 and a Contax 137 MA Quartz/ZEISS 50mm f/1.7
Thank you for the kind words, Gary. I rather like this film.
Ibraar Hussain on Analogue (and analogue inspired) News and Tittle-Tattle – Newsletter July 2025
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