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Sunset light grazing a church roof, steeple, clouds and then reflecting off the moon

4 December, 2025

A Vast Illumination – My photograph of the year 2025

By Dave Powell

4 December, 2025

/ Architectural Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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10 July, 2023

NEWS: MiNT Innovates With An All-in-One SLR670 (Type i) Camera

By Molly Kate

MiNT’s innovation continues to serve the Polaroid instant film community, this time by making an all-in-one SLR670 camera that takes SX-70, 600, and now i-Type films. While the ...

10 July, 2023

Rollei 35S “Art Machine” – My Early Experiences

By John Feole

The Rollei 35 may be the best secret of all. Introduced in 1966, this miniature 35mm film viewfinder camera is more than the sum of its beautifully engineered parts. With a litt...

9 July, 2023

5 Frames from a Canon A35F – The Best Rangefinder

By Robert Johnson

So you’ve read the title and now I need to convince you to put down your Leica… OK… Maybe once you have a Leica, this isn’t for you. But for those of yo...

8 July, 2023

5 Frames with a Houghton Ensign Box 2¼B

By Ralph Turner

It’s funny what catches your eye when you’re casually roaming around the ‘Bay. The words “rapid rectilinear” caught my eye, a lens type well respected in it’s day. After a littl...

7 July, 2023

Konica FS-1 and FT-1 review – The Shape of Things to Come

By Bob Janes

Konica produced Sakura film (later simply rebranded to ‘Konica’). They were the second-largest film producer in Japan after Fujifilm. As well as their own films, they produced f...

6 July, 2023

5 Frames with a Helios 44-2 with the front element reversed

By Dean Lawrence

A couple of years ago I happened to see an image on Twitter that completely stopped me in my tracks. It was a very fortunate sighting as I'm not a big fan of twitter, I am howev...

6 July, 2023

Olympus OM1 – Return of a Classic

By Julian Tanase

In order for you to understand why this camera is so important to me, I’ll have to take you back in the mid-90s. It shan’t be a long journey, I promise. For those of you who wer...

5 July, 2023

The “Pheasant Whisperer” (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

Last May, Kate and I enjoyed a two-week trip through Italy’s spectacular Lake Region– just south of the snowy Dolomites at the Austro-Swiss borders. And at 11:44 on the mo...

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