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6 April, 2020

How to Build a Darkroom for £100 or Less – Darkroom Technique Part 1 – by Sroyon Mukherjee

By Sroyon

I’ve been shooting film since the late 90s; my father bought me a quirky little National 35 when I was thirteen. But I started darkroom printing just a year and a half ago, in a...

2 March, 2020

That Time I Shot an 18-55mm APS-C Digital Lens on a 35mm Pentax Film Camera

By Hamish Gill

Those of you who follow my ramblings will be aware that I’ve recently been through a little bit of a phase of shooting Pentax SLRs. The thing I’m beginning to love about them is...

25 February, 2020

That time I shot a Noritar 80mm f/2 medium format lens on a Pentax 35mm film camera – By Aivaras

By Aivaras

For a long time, I was looking into 6x6 medium format cameras with a really fast standard focal length lens (around 80mm). Such lenses are rare, as far as I know there are two o...

13 February, 2020

How I Shot A Micro-Budget Feature Film for less than £4000 with Vintage Lenses and a Sony A7s – By Brenden Singh

By brendensingh

Why make a micro-budget feature film? Well, I had the idea since I was 14 years old. I had a lot of free time at that age, having been kicked out of Secondary School and not bei...

12 February, 2020

A Paxette Pinhole Conversion and a walk in the Countryside – By Rock

By Rock

In an earlier post I suggested that the only thing left to do with my 1950s rangefinder 35mm was a pinhole conversion project, bearing in mind that most features were dead (invi...

6 February, 2020

A slightly troubled tale of replacing vintage camera leather – by Christopher James

By Pixels and Grain Photography Collective

I’ve started seeing more photos of vintage cameras with their leather covers replaced, and to me they often look great. Other than a few useful flickr posts and some short video...

6 January, 2020

That time I shot Instax film in a Mamiya 6, upside-down – By Gilbert Townshend

By Gilbert Townshend

I have over the past five years developed either passion or an obsession for instant films, depending on who you should choose to ask. Growing up just on the cusp of the digital...

27 December, 2019

Worried about the price of film? Some thoughts on bulk loading (and my process) – By Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

I go through quite a bit of film these days, primarily black and white 35mm and 120. I became interested in loading bulk film onto reloadable 35mm film cassettes. There was an e...

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Jeffery Luhn on 5 frames with a Leica M4-2, Seagull M 35mm f1.7 and Kentmere Pan 40017/10/2026
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Gary Smith on Godox C100 Camera and Light-Meter Review – Photography Made Transparent17/10/2026
Like Kyle, I wonder how this little gizmo can be sold in the USA for $44 when I had to…
Sroyon on Godox C100 Camera and Light-Meter Review – Photography Made Transparent17/10/2026
Oh, that's a very good question! I haven't used such meters, and I don't know the answer.
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