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2 January, 2023

Sirui B25R Bendable LED Light Review – It Bends! – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Last week I reviewed the Sirui T120 Telescopic Light. The light I’m reviewing this week – the Sirui B25R (or to give its full name, the Sirui Dragon Series B25R Bendable R...

29 December, 2022

Sirui T120 Telescopic RGB LED Light Review – I See You Have Constructed a New Lightsaber – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Sirui is a Chinese company founded in 2001, who make a range of photography and video accessories including anamorphic and cine lenses, tripods and stabilisers. They also produc...

28 December, 2022

Nikon FM2 Camera Review – Joy in Simplicity – By Ted Ayre

By Ted Ayre

Like many millennials I grew up in the 90’s with family point-and-shoots, quickly watching them disappear for digital compacts in the 00’s, and then those being ditched for the ...

27 December, 2022

Nikon F801 (N8008) Review – A Numbers Game – By Tony Warren

By Tony Warren

I sold my last film SLR in the late 1990s before my flirtation with digital, which quite quickly lost its appeal and I drifted back to film, continuing with digital mainly as a ...

23 December, 2022

Kodak Six-16 Camera – A Gifted Camera Experience – By Kevin Montanaro

By Kevin Montanaro

I was at work one day when a friend/client came in with something in a weathered leather case. At the end of our service he handed me the case with "and this is for you." This i...

21 December, 2022

Cinestill 400D vs Kodak Portra 400 – Film Review – By Ted Ayre

By Ted Ayre

Let’s face it, Kodak Portra 400 is the predominant colour negative film of the decade. When Fujifilm inexplicably pulled Pro400H off the market, it left Kodak to dominate the me...

19 December, 2022

Nikon (Nippon Kogaku) W-Nikkor 3.5cm f/1.8 LTM Review – a GAS killer – By Agata Urbaniak

By Agata Urbaniak

Nowadays, f/1.8 seems synonymous with entry-level. It's often a compromise between speed, size/weight, and affordability draped in plastic and aimed at budding photographers loo...

16 December, 2022

ZHong Yi Lens Turbo II Review – The Cure – By Tony Warren

By Tony Warren

According to Google Translate, “zhong yi” means “traditional Chinese medicine” and it did indeed cure one of my photographic afflictions. Around 20 years ago, at eye watering c...

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