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11 December, 2025

Scarborough – My photograph of the year 2025.

By Steviemac

11 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Street & Urban Photography, /

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14 December, 2023

Agfa Copex Rapid developed in H&W Control

By Simon Foale

The tantalising mysteries of microfilms (AKA ‘copy’ or ‘document’ films) grabbed my attention almost as soon as I re-entered the world of film a few short years ago, precipitate...

13 December, 2023

5 Frames With an XA2 – A Brace of Olympi, Pt. 1

By Peter Roberts

Love them or hate them, and personally I love them, charity shops (read thrift stores or op shops if you will) have become a ubiquitous feature of most high streets. At their pr...

12 December, 2023

116 Cameras – Shooting Wide Aspect Ratio on a Shoestring

By Marco Andrés

The standard aspect ratio of 35mm film is 1.5:1 (36mm x 24mm). In contrast, wide aspect negatives range up to the ultra wide, and pricey, Hasselblad XPan, with an aspect ratio o...

11 December, 2023

The Short Telephoto – My Preferred Carry-Everywhere Lens

By Hamish Gill

It’s been a little while since I really began to realise just how much more I favour I hold for a short telephoto lens. Over last summer though it went from being a vague prefer...

10 December, 2023

NEWS: Bi-weekly News Round-Up – December 10, 2023

By Molly Kate

This post and video bring together all of the latest news stories we have shared from the last few weeks. If you want to read the individual articles in full detail, then head t...

10 December, 2023

AI, TV, VHS, IC, CD, DVD, EV, ICV and all the rest.

By Tony Warren

Currently isolated with my first bout of covid, to pass the time I have been reading various articles relating to developments in photographic technology (and playing with Affin...

9 December, 2023

Where is the Heidelberg? – with Canonet GIII QL17 and Fomapan 400

By Reyazul Haque

I did not know where the city of Heidelberg was until I reached there. I knew it was somewhere. As I was growing up, I read a poem by Allama Iqbal that he had written on the ban...

8 December, 2023

NEWS: Analog Cafe Founder Creates Edible Instant Pinhole Camera from Gingerbread

By Molly Kate

Analog Cafe’s Dmitri Tcherbadji is in the news again this week but this time it’s for his unique holiday creation, an instant pinhole camera made from gingerbread with a sugar g...

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