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3 November, 2025

5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too

By Chris Giles

3 November, 2025

/ Kentmere 100, Kentmere Film, Neo Fot A, /

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31 October, 2025

A Haunted House for Halloween!

By Dave Powell

This was the most haunted place I ever lived. And the most vicious. You wouldn’t recognize it today, though. It’s now surrounded by trees. And across three-quarters of a century...

30 October, 2025

Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)

By John Bennett

After our recent road trip, which included a night at the Hotel Finlen in Butte, Montana, and a chance to photograph the window where Robert Frank made one of the 83 images incl...

30 October, 2025

Printing Live: What I Learned from Sharing the Darkroom in Real Time

By Tom Warland

Ever since I first started photography, I’ve loved the darkroom. There have been times when I’ve drifted away from it – drawn in by the convenience of digital editing, whe...

30 October, 2025

5 Frames, some with the Bridge Turned into Shadow and Shape.

By Danilo Leonardi

It sometimes seems as though every sunset has already been photographed. Most often, the image is of a landscape in the “golden hour,” a favourite of postcard pictures. Epic ski...

29 October, 2025

An evening with Aladdin

By Julian Tanase

I do enjoy shooting film on and off stage, at various artistic happenings, be these concerts, plays or such events. Most of the times I shoot without being the designated photog...

29 October, 2025

A Nostalgic Race and a Suburban Shopping Centre with Kodak Tri-X

By Martin H

As promised in my previous analogue articles, “Analogue Photography – A Personal Journey Part 1 and Part 2”, I’ve started shooting with film again and will be sharing the result...

Indoor Training -Helicopter rescue with winch

28 October, 2025

Unique Mountain Rescue Training Hall near Munich – and my Ricoh GR III Impressions

By Jens

As both a physician and an enthusiastic amateur photographer, my visit in May 2025 to the training hall of the mountain rescue service in Bad Tölz/Gaißach, about 50 km south of ...

28 October, 2025

My Introduction to Film Photography

By Randy Castillo

My introduction into photography began many years ago around 2015 or 2016 with a Sony digital a5000. A small compact APS-C camera I purchased from Best Buy for a whopping $400! ...

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