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Food Van at a food festival

4 November, 2025

5 Frames with Royalty at a Food Festival

By Richard Becker

4 November, 2025

/ Zeiss Ikon Contessa 35 533/24, /

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I took a German/Italian Countess to a food festival the other week thinking it was the sort of outing she might enjoy, local artisan food producers along with some art and craft stalls. While we were there the light was very dull and flat so we fa...

Motorway bridge over the River Exe and Exeter Ship Canal

4 November, 2025

The Motorway Bridge – A One Shot Story

By Ed

4 November, 2025

/ Architectural Photography, /

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This photograph shows the underside of the motorway bridge that crosses the head of the Exe Estuary. I regularly cycle or walk under this bridge. It’s an impressive structure and a testament to our cultural preference for triumphant engineer...

Front view of Samsung L85

4 November, 2025

Samsung Digimax L85 (and How It Replaced a Sigma DP2s)

By Ed

4 November, 2025

/ Compact Digital, Samsung Digimax L85, Samsung Digital, /

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During the summer I bought a Foveon-based camera, the Sigma DP2s. The DP2s was released in 2010, a minor update to the DP2. I’d always wanted to try a Foveon camera and I thought I had a reasonable buy at just over £220. I knew the DP2s ate ...

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18 June, 2024

5 Frames with a Fujifilm GA645

By Eric

I have never gone through film as quickly as I have with the Fujifilm GA645. Ten rolls in the first week of ownership. There are other cameras I profess to really like that have...

17 June, 2024

Pentax 17 Comprehensive Review – The New Half-Frame Point & Shoot

By Hamish Gill

I’ve been writing about film cameras for a long time now, but the release of a new film camera from a major brand like Pentax feels somehow more significant than most, if not al...

Rollei RPX 25 at 100asa in Rodinal 100:1

17 June, 2024

Rollei RPX 25 at 100 ASA stand developed in Rodinal 100:1

By Geoff Chaplin

I decided to expose RPX 25 (two years past its use by date) at 100asa unfiltered. Why? Well (a) I am after all British, and that’s the sort of stupid thing we do sometimes, (b) ...

Adox CHS 100 II

17 June, 2024

Adox CHS 100 II – First Impressions

By Geoff Chaplin

Adox CHS 100 II is an orthopanchromatic film on a PET base. Orthopanchromatic? What is that? In brief, somewhere between ortho and pan, but the long and better explanation is as...

16 June, 2024

London Tube Riders Having the Time of their Lives, or Perhaps Not

By Danilo Leonardi

Visualise entering a space lit by artificial light, where the outlining of day and night blurs, and everything you see is human-made. It is an environment where the architecture...

15 June, 2024

Seeking Stefan – A One Shot Story

By Peter Roberts

According to my friend Stefan I have a doppelgänger. He goes by the name of Robert apparently. Although doppelgänger usually receive a bad press I’ve never really consider...

Jimmy taking a picture on a medium format camera, with a building behind with red paint on.

15 June, 2024

One Photographer and Two Cameras for Spares & Repairs

By Joel Rouse

My last article, Two Photographers, One Camera, and the Crushing Disappointment of Film, attracted a fair amount of comments—encouraging and not-so-encouraging. The results from...

14 June, 2024

Modifying and Shooting a Sprocket Rocket in Oxford

By Charles Higham

This project aimed to improve the quality of the images produced by the Lomography Sprocket Rocket. The Sprocket Rocket is a plastic camera designed to achieve and does deliver ...

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