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6 February, 2026

When Bad Light is Good for Holgas – The Whole Roll

By Neal Wellons

6 February, 2026

/ Foma Film, Fomapan 400, Holga 120N, /

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3 June, 2024

Pentax 645 – A Review of a Budget Medium Format Workhorse

By fleetwoodler

Quite early into my still-young photographic journey, I fell in love with medium format photography. I adore how the film format captivates with its unique blend of fine grain a...

Pentax 645D with Pentax-A 120mm f/4 lens.

2 June, 2024

5 Frames of Macrophotography with a Pentax 645D and Pentax-A 120mm f/4

By Will Leiter

When I told my friend I was investing in the Pentax 645 system he asked me what took so long. He has the classic Pentax 645 and swears by it: it offers the gorgeous depth of fie...

A colour photo of a Canon EOS 30 film camera, sitting on a concrete slab in an outdoor environment

1 June, 2024

5 frames with a Canon EOS 30 – A return to film

By Matthew Becker

I’ve been around photography my whole life, starting with film in the 90s as I ambled around after my dad. Since we were often out looking at wildlife, as my parents are a...

31 May, 2024

Seeing in Black and White

By Geoff Chaplin

I was photographing in colour for over 50 years. Occasionally I’d put a B&W film in the camera but I was still photographing in colour, there just happened to be B&W fil...

31 May, 2024

King Dominant or Regula Sprinty BC300

By Eduardo Andres Vecchio

This 35mm camera belongs to my father and was purchased in 1975 for his graduation trip. During the trip, only two people carried cameras: himself and another classmate with a N...

30 May, 2024

The Whole Roll (x2): Fomapan 400 & Kodak Tri-X, April 2024

By Simon King

Sometimes I can complete a roll quickly, sometimes it’s a painstaking process; a few exposures here and there even though I want to try and pressure myself and accomplish ...

30 May, 2024

SPUR UFG – The Quest for Finest Grain – An Aviation Film used for very Down-to-Earth Photography

By Jens Kotlenga

On a recent trip to Germany’s rustbelt along the Rhine and Ruhr rivers I carried in my bag a roll of SPUR UFG film that I wanted to try out shooting in a former steelworks just ...

29 May, 2024

On the Common – a One Shot Story

By Nathan Sherwood

I grew up in a village in the south of England. Not a deeply rural place, but surrounded by enough woodland and field to keep any child exploring through many a long summer. Dur...

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