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11 December, 2023

The Short Telephoto – My Preferred Carry-Everywhere Lens

By Hamish Gill

It’s been a little while since I really began to realise just how much more I favour I hold for a short telephoto lens. Over last summer though it went from being a vague prefer...

29 November, 2023

500mm Mirror Lens with Film – by Simon King

By Simon King

I sometimes feel a fear of falling off. It once occurred to me that looking up at the moon was like looking over the edge of a chasm except that while there may be an edge of so...

14 November, 2023

Confessions of a Failed Camera Flipper

By Kary Schumpert

For the longest time, I owned only one camera. When I bought a new camera, I just donated or gave my old camera away, and I usually hung on to a camera for years. In fact, I was...

10 September, 2023

Olympus OM – 42 years, Full Circle Back to Where I Started

By Steve Phillips

Back in January 1981, I was in my final year at university, and after a Christmas holiday spent doing an incredibly boring job, I had more than the usual student grant money in ...

9 September, 2023

You VS FOMO – when to leave a film format behind

By Azriel Knight

As I write this article I have packed up my Pentax 6×7 and all three lenses, I am selling it off and my Speed Graphic isn’t far behind. I am done with medium format. Seems ...

2 September, 2023

Fujifilm Neopan SS – My Last Rolls & When Not to Shoot Expired Film

By Azriel Knight

A few years ago, I was gifted a lot of film for a project I was working on which involved shooting a roll a day for two weeks and vlogging my journey. I was mailed so much that ...

17 August, 2023

My First Time using Kodak Motion Picture Film – ENC-2 vs. C41.

By Armando Caballero

Nowadays, I use analogue photography for 90% of my Street Photography, with the only exception being when it’s raining outside and I don’t want to get my analogue ca...

9 June, 2023

A Cautionary Tale about Scanning Negs with a Digital Camera

By Marco Andrés

While there is much interest in scanning with a digital camera, there are other ways of scanning negatives: using a lab or home-scanning with a dedicated scanner. Scanning with ...

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Charles Young on Vivitar EZ Motor Big View – A modern box?
Your photos with the Vivitar camera are great! I want to see your results with the antique Kodak Box camera.…
Walter Reumkens on Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan
Here is the link to the laboratory in Germany that I mentioned: https://www.meinfilmlab.de/en/ Tips and recommendations on film use appear…
Walter Reumkens on Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan
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