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1 December, 2024

DSLR Scanning on a Budget: Unlock Stunning Results with an Affordable Enlarger Lens

By Markus Hofstätter

You can fall in quite a huge rabbit hole if you read about scanning negatives with your mirrorless or DSLR camera, lots of people recommend different lenses. You easily can spen...

24 November, 2024

Converting Colour and B&W Film Negs – an Evolution

By Marco Andrés

Today there are many options for converting colour and b&w negatives to positives that combine hardware and software. In contrast to now, when I embarked on this journey, th...

Horizon S3 Pro. Swing-lens panoramic film camera

21 November, 2024

The Wider View – learning to create panoramic images

By Dave Whenham

Over the last few years my photography has definitely moved away from landscape to urban subjects. Of course, restrictions due to the pandemic were the catalyst for this s...

21 November, 2024

Memorable photos made with forgettable lenses

By Simon Foale

Well, memorable for me anyway – your mileage may vary. Some of the images I’m sharing here made good money for me a few years ago when I had a side hustle in stock...

18 November, 2024

Spectacular Vernacular. Memory and Legacy.

By Nik Stanbridge

The camera is a memory machine. And a legacy one. Photography is all about recording memories (or creating them) and building, whether you like it or not, a legacy. They, the me...

17 November, 2024

The Gigapixel Image

By Geoff Chaplin

I’d like to report an interesting (well, I thought so anyway) discussion that took place at my village camera club the other day. The topic was “How to Achieve a G...

14 November, 2024

Enjoying the 110 format

By Tony Warren

the 110 format, the cameras, film, cassettes.

4 November, 2024

TLR Challenge: 3 – Night Shots

By Geoff Chaplin

With an appointment nearby at 7pm and having arrived in the area at 6:15 I had about 40 minutes to shoot the third film of the day that I had promised myself I would take. With ...

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