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19 August, 2021

Olympus OM10 – It’s Not You, It’s Me – By Jay Ridsdale

By Jay

Purchased for around £50 complete with a Miranda 28-70mm zoom lens, I never loved the Olympus OM10 and by the time we parted company I doubt it was all that fond of me. The came...

17 August, 2021

Cannonmate AE 808 – Shooting a very fake “Canon” – By Karl Gustavsson

By Karl Gustavsson

Some film cameras are cheap. There is no doubt about it. Sure, you can but a Leica or a Hasselblad for a small fortune but it is fully possible to buy a great camera that suits ...

15 August, 2021

Ilford HP5 and a First Experiment at 3200 – by Jonathan Slater

By Jonathan Slater

Minolta's SRT series is regarded as something of a classic for good reason - they're beautifully tactile in the hands, make sounds that you can find videos dedicated to on YouTu...

10 August, 2021

Kodak Brownie Vecta and Following in Fox Talbot’s Footsteps – by Charles Higham

By Charles Higham

I was recently reading about the industrial designer Sir Kenneth Grange, who over a long career has been involved in the creation of an impressive range of household products in...

9 August, 2021

A Calculator for Pinhole Camera Design – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Two main factors determine how a pinhole camera “sees” – that is, whether its angle of view is wide, normal or tele. The first is the sensor size (throughout this po...

3 August, 2021

Yashica Elite 70 Review – No Zeiss No Problem – By Sean Benham

By Sean Benham

When I hear about Yashica and point and shoot cameras I think of the T series. Just doing a search on eBay, T3 and T4 start in the $300 range. As we know with many of these plas...

27 July, 2021

Minolta Hi-Matic 7s and A Sentimental Journey Discovering True Optical Prints – by Shawn Granton

By shawn granton

It was the first week of January 2020 and I was down for the count with a cold. "A perfect start to a new year", I thought to myself, not realizing what would be in store just a...

26 July, 2021

Pergear 25mm f/1.8 Review – A Brand New Lens for my Sony for ~£50!

By Hamish Gill

A little while ago Pergear offered to loan me some lenses to review. I declined at the time, but having recently been shooting with an old Sony NEX-5R I bought a as cheapo digit...

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David Hume on Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops
Ha - it looks like Reiner asked the same question that I did and pressed send while I was still…
David Hume on Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops
Hey Scott, thanks for this, and very interesting to read. Can I ask for some clarification that perhaps I’ve missed…
Reiner on Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops
Hi Scott, are all the films lab C41 developed with the instruction of the pushed ISO added on which the…

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