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15 August, 2020

Kodak Panoram No.1 – Photographing Yosemite with my 120 year old Panoramic Camera – By Dan Cuny

By Dan Cuny

My love for cameras and photography goes back to when I was a young boy living in Chicago. I believe the majority of the people I know with this kind of passion always starts at...

14 August, 2020

Fed 2 Russian Rangefinder Mini-Review – By Julian Higgs

By julianhiggs

Why would anyone want to buy a 50 plus year of Fed 2 Russian Rangefinder camera? I have been interested in older LTM rangefinders ever since I bought a charity shop Fed 4 and a ...

13 August, 2020

Hanimex VEF Mini Camera Mini Review – by Tobias Eriksson

By Flashknappen

My very first own camera was one of those flat fold-out Kodak 110-format Instamatics. I remember making paper copies from 110 negatives with my father's old enlarger once I'd st...

13 August, 2020

Six of my Best Freebie Cameras – Part1: The SLRs – By Rock

By Rock

This is about six cameras that I now own; great cameras I might add. Why, because they are classics? Are they the best of their class? Great performers? Valuable? To be honest, ...

11 August, 2020

Sprocket Rocket 2.0 Review – A Day at the Fair – By Alex Vye

By Alex Vye

The Sprocket Rocket is a plastic, panoramic 35mm camera that offers a 1:3 aspect ratio. The lens is a 30mm with f/10.8 and f/16 settings, and a fixed mechanical shutter with a s...

11 August, 2020

Disposable Camera Holiday Snaps – Moments of Truth (Part One) – By Brian Nicholls

By MrSnappy

We’ve all got George Eastman and his Brownie cameras to thank for creating the tool for vernacular photography. That simple principle of combining a single element, fixed focus ...

10 August, 2020

Minolta X300 – Turning Back Time with my 35 Year Old SLR – By Richard Wilford

By Richard Wilford

I was given a Minolta X300 for my 21st birthday. It wasn’t my first camera but it was my first SLR, and I’m still using it 35 years later. For 23 years it was virtually all I us...

10 August, 2020

Contax RTS Review – Second Time Lucky

By Hamish Gill

The Contax RTS is a camera I’ve now had two experiences with. In fact, most of the content of this review was written around the time of first contact with one. That earlier ver...

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Marco Dughera on The Aesthetic Qualities of BW Film Images – by Marco Dughera
Hi Bill, printing is a huge topic in itself and I am also experimenting in this area. Since I want…
David Pauley on Panasonic Lumix GX7 – Travelling in The Rural Punjab
Ibraar, you are a master of portraiture! There's a palpable comfort between the subjects and you, a sense of comfort…
Marco Dughera on The Aesthetic Qualities of BW Film Images – by Marco Dughera
Hi Gary, Given my intentions the title is appropriate, I narrowed the scope on why me (and likely others) like…

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