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7 October, 2025

Up-Tech – A Short Roll of Questionable Photography

By Nicholas Johnson

The Up-Tech is a camera. Mine has a face drawn on it, and I bought it after a very mild evening at a local brewery. I’ve decided to write a post about it. A 5 US$ dollar camera...

Holding the HP iPaq with camera attachment

7 October, 2025

HP PhotoSmart Mobile Camera review – an SD card camera for Windows PDAs

By Charlotte

In the age of smartphones, the idea of not having a camera in your pocket at all times may seem foreign. But even as far as twenty years ago, there were developments to try and ...

6 October, 2025

Papershoot – A “Real” Photographer’s Review

By Hamish Gill

As a “real” photographer – a pro even; certainly an expert – I feel like the Papershoot is not really targeted at me. It’s a microscopically small sensor, point and ...

4 October, 2025

JOBO SilverBase – A brief look at the compact rotary processor – Shake it or stir it?

By Jens Kotlenga

As far as film processing is concerned, recently switching to JOBO’s SilverBase rotary processor means I have come full circle on my pilgrimage on the path of film developing. I...

3 October, 2025

Zeiss ZK Planar T* 50mm F/1.4 – Test Shots and an Unpleasant Incident

By Andrea Monti

I am a huge fan of Zeiss lenses, and I have made sure to own at least one of them for each camera system I have used over the years. To be honest, my only regret when switching ...

2 October, 2025

Sony RX1R and the Illusion of Alternatives

By Sien Hong

When Sony announced the RX1R III, my mind immediately leapt back to the original RX1R – a camera I had once carried, loved, and ultimately let go. The cost of the RX1R III...

1 October, 2025

To CineMot Coimbra, with love

By Alastair Holland

For anyone who doesn’t know, CineMot is a company based in Porto, Portugal, that takes spools of old Kodak Cine film and re-spools it into the typical 36-exposure rolls. They re...

26 September, 2025

Super-Frankarette LRII – a German Rangefinder camera from 1959

By Bob Janes

They don’t make cameras like the Super-Frankarette any more. Franka-Kamerawerk (Franka being a German region and nothing to do with Franke & Heidecke) was based in Beyreuth,...

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Gary Smith on Europe’s second city, with a Yashica Mat 124G
I had to read to find out which city was Europe's second city. Really like the castle core shot. Amazing…
Gary Smith on Relearning Film – Notes from a Returning Shooter
Thanks for your post Ned! I too have been posting about my stumbling back to shooting film. I'm a bit…
Eric on Europe’s second city, with a Yashica Mat 124G
Wonderful combination of tech! To bad you couldn't do some film interiors of the churches. All images were stunning and…

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