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26 October, 2020

Making, Measuring and Testing the “Optimal” Pinhole: Pinhole Adventures Part 3 – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

There’s a scene in Jurassic Park where Dr. Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) gives the park’s creators a lecture on ethics. He ends with the famous line, “Your scientist...

23 October, 2020

Hasselblad Super Wide (Early Version) Review & History – By Dan Cuny

By Dan Cuny

My intention in this post to be about the Hasselblad Supreme Wide Angle Camera (SWA) until I took the camera out, shot with it. I quickly noticed that this is indeed a Hasselbla...

21 October, 2020

Zero 2000 Pinhole Camera, a Camel and an Elephant – By Scott Gitlin

By Scott Gitlin

One day back in 2011, I was walking along the shore at Rockaway Beach, New York, capturing scenes with a Fuji S3 Pro digital camera. I noticed an area of beach sand with about a...

20 October, 2020

Canon AE-1 Review – The Hater’s Guide – By Rich Stroffolino

By Rich Stroffolino

It is perhaps underappreciated that because new 35mm cameras aren’t being made (or at least not produced in volume), we have changed how we evaluate these cameras as a community...

19 October, 2020

Goodman Scura 35mm 3D Printed Panoramic Pinhole Camera Review

By Hamish Gill

I recently built and shot a Goodman Scura 35mm 3D printed pinhole camera. Despite myself, the build went ok, was quite enjoyable, and I actually got a fair bit of pleasure out o...

13 October, 2020

Rolleiflex 2.8C Review – Making Friends with a Legend – By Phil Calvit

By Phil Calvit

Like many of you, I’m in the habit of scanning Facebook Marketplace for interesting old cameras, with an eye towards a lose list I keep in my head. On this day, I saw one of tho...

12 October, 2020

CAMERADACTYL Mongoose – Automation for you 35mm Digitisation Workflow

By Hamish Gill

A couple of weeks ago, the CAMERADACTYL Mongoose was launched on Kickstarter - it is a product designed to automate and speed up the process of digitisation of 35mm film with a ...

9 October, 2020

Olympus mju-V Metal Review – Not So Famous Last Words – By Octavia Vans

By Octavia Vans

I’m going to own up to it now, to pre-emptively caveat this Olympus mju-V review. I am one of the dreaded Millenials (or even Generation Z, depending where you draw the line) th...

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Bob Janes on A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
Thank you. The little 28 is a gem - not hugely fast, but small and not horrendously expensive as the…
Bob Janes on A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
I find ISO 200 to be quite a nice compromise. Recently I've more been playing with pulling ISO 400 film…
Tim Piscitelli on One Shot Story – Resilience
Thanks Geoff. I am on a mission to write the who-what-where-when's on the back of meaningful photos. I have a…

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