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28 July, 2026

Jupiter 8 and Tamron 500 SP – Two cheap lenses

By Geoff Chaplin

28 July, 2026

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23 July, 2026

New Horizons with Adapted Lenses

By Emmanuel Hernandez

My creative journey usually looks like this: have a slight interest in a topic, go on a deep dive online, and learn as much as I can before committing fully. I started photograp...

22 July, 2026

Photochemical Graffiti – a rock ‘n roll photowalk

By Scott Ferguson

It was a beautiful sunny afternoon in late May – perfect for a photo outing. For most of the late winter and early spring, I had been shooting street portraits, mostly on...

21 July, 2026

Gemini on Film – the Cameras and Films Used on the Gemini Space Missions – Pt2

By Andrew Long

Part one of this article looked at how, after very humble beginnings, NASA realised the potential photography could bring to the Space Program – how the cameras used in space we...

21 July, 2026

5 Frames with a Holga 120GN and Kentmere 400 in North Jutland

By fleetwoodler

I spent three months working in North Jutland this spring, and it became a bit of a ritual: whenever friends came to visit, I’d take them out hiking either along the coast...

21 July, 2026

Kochmann Korelle 6×4.5cm Converted for use with 35mm Film

By Richard Becker

The Kochmann Korelle 6×4.5 was a German strut-folding camera taking 16 negatives on a roll of 120 film, available from 1933 they were made up to the start of WW2. Apart fro...

The Minolta P’s on a table, viewed from a slight front angle.

20 July, 2026

Minolta P’s Review – More And Less for Pocket Panoramics

By Gale Lee

The concept of doing more with less is nothing new; in many ways, it’s a fundamental principle of good design. That fact is readily apparent when it comes to the tools we use in...

All components necessary to convert a Boyer Saphir 135mm f/4.5 to LTM

19 July, 2026

No tools, no skill, no know-how – the simplest way to convert a lens to LTM

By Agata Urbaniak

It’s been almost 9 years since I got my first lens in Leica thread mount. It was Canon 135mm f/3.5 and I was blown away by how well it stood the test of time even though it was ...

18 July, 2026

Gemini on Film – the Cameras and Films Used on the Gemini Space Missions – Pt1

By Andrew Long

I had a rather significant birthday this year (!) and my family bought me a rather unusual present – a reel of 70mm colour transparencies from the July 1966 Gemini X space missi...

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