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6 November, 2025

Kodak Tri-X 400 or Ilford HP5+ 400 who? when? where?

By Giacomo Cecot

6 November, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford HP5+, Kodak Film, Kodak Tri-X, /

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There were several options for black and white films back in the day. There has been a period a few years ago when suddenly the options were limited and the films sometimes hard to come by, especially for analog-camera-enthusiasts living outside m...

7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF

6 November, 2025

7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF (Z Mount) Review

By Hamish Gill

6 November, 2025

/ 35mm Lens, 7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF, Mirrorless Lens, Wide-Angle Lens, /

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As part of my transition from Sony to Nikon for my primary digital camera I am going to be testing a few more lenses from the budget end of the market. The next one the list is this, the surprisingly interesting 7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF. I have menti...

Lockdown 2025

6 November, 2025

By Geoff Chaplin

6 November, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, SmartPhone Camera, /

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We got back in the afternoon having spent several days in Osaka – for the centre of Hokkaido it was a reasonable temperature, around 9 degrees (48 in old money), but in the evening the weather was horrible, heavy rain and a storm. The house was co...

Minolta X700 SLR with two lenses and old camera bag.

6 November, 2025

5 Frames at Penmon Point

By Nic

6 November, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford FP4+, Minolta X-700, /

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A trip to north Wales provided a long overdue opportunity for some ‘proper’ photography. To me that means picking up my camera and going out with the sole purpose of creating photographic images, as distinct from a walk or a visit with the camera...

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14 August, 2024

5 Frames in Old San Juan On a Mamiya 6 with Fujichrome

By Tyler Montgomery

Since getting back into film, photography has become a focal point of my travels, even when it’s simply to document the mundane. Unlike the bottomless nature of digital photogra...

13 August, 2024

Father, Son and a Texas Star – A One Shot Story

By Cameron Kilpatrick

After moving to Austin Texas in 2018 from Toronto Canada, I was eager to get out and shoot some film. I had come back to shooting film again from a decade or so of pray and spra...

13 August, 2024

Shooting Sheet film in a Polaroid Pack Camera

By Jim Skelton

My stash of Polaroid pack film was running low when I realized that all of my Polaroid pack cameras would be film orphans soon unless someone started producing pack film again. ...

12 August, 2024

The Camera that Launched my Career… and Nearly Devastated me.

By Jeffery Luhn

I’m talking about the EXA 1-A, my first ‘grown-up’ camera. Don’t confuse this model with classic Exacta cameras with leaf or focal plane shutters. The Exa has no real shutter. T...

Minolta X-700 camera with a box of Harman Phoenix

11 August, 2024

5 Frames with a Minolta X-700 and Harman Phoenix in Krakow, Poland

By James Billings

I’d wanted to try Harman Phoenix for a while. When it was released in late 2023, there was a lot of excitement for a new colour film – not a repackaged Kodak cine-fi...

10 August, 2024

5 Frames Going Square with 35mm Film in a Minolta 24 Rapid

By Marco Andrés

So you like square format but you don’t want to pay the price for medium format or bear the weight and prefer the convenience of 135. And if you can barely get through 36 frames...

9 August, 2024

An Accidental Living-Room – A One Shot Story

By Danilo Leonardi

The photograph illustrating this post was taken nine summers ago, on a Sunday, while I was walking along the Thames Path in East London, not far from the Canada Water DLR Statio...

9 August, 2024

Retina IIc and the Kodak Retina system

By Tony Warren

A few years ago my cousin passed her father’s Retina IIc on to me including a lens hood, a couple of filters and a 1958 copy of The Retina Way by O. R. Croy. This informative bo...

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