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29 June, 2021

Agiflex – The British Medium Format SLR – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

Aeronautical and General Instruments, or AGI, used to have a factory in Purley way. At the time, London’s main airport was just across the road from the factory. During the Seco...

25 June, 2021

Ricoh R10 First Rolls Mini-Review – By Louis Boothman

By Louis Boothman

For me a point & shoot cameras are a tool for capturing family moments, days out, candid references for memories that I’d otherwise forget. The Ricoh R10 is my weapon of cho...

24 June, 2021

Lomography’s Babylon 13 – Shooting Portraits in Chinatown – By Eric Jones

By Eric Charles Jones

It has always been hit or miss for me when I shot with slow speed films. Images were tragically soft or out of focus. I would either overexpose or underexpose each frame. Maybe ...

22 June, 2021

Canonet 28 Review – The modest Canon – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

There have been at least two cameras called a Canonet 28. The first was a very basic viewfinder camera with a selenium cell. This is the second one, sometimes called the 'New 28...

20 June, 2021

‘New in Town’ – The Making of a Photo Book and Finding Inspiration Right Where I live – By Robert Guanci

By Robert Guanci

This submission is in a lot of ways a follow-up to my first 5 Frames post with Emulsive. At the time of writing that 5 Frames post, “Ilford Hp5 Plus (35mm format / El 800 / Can...

18 June, 2021

Pentax Program A – First Impressions Review – By Peter Roberts

By Peter Roberts

When a couple years ago my daughter was given a film camera by her partner's uncle it was passed to me to check out before she used it. I didn't know what to expect but it turn...

15 June, 2021

Contax IIa review – Chasing that Classic Look with an Unaccountably Affordable Vintage German Rangefinder – By Phil Calvit

By Phil Calvit

Like most of you good 35mmc readers, I’d love to own a classic Leica. And like most of you (unless you’re a more posh lot than I’d assumed), I’ve been unwilling to make the life...

14 June, 2021

PPP Cosmic Lomo T-43 to Leica M-Mount Lens Conversion Review

By Hamish Gill

Some people might question the logic of mounting a Lomo lens to a Leica camera. Not me though, I think it’s a great idea and I am all the more enthralled when someone goes out o...

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