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6 November, 2025

Kodak Tri-X 400 or Ilford HP5+ 400 who? when? where?

By Giacomo Cecot

6 November, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford HP5+, Kodak Film, Kodak Tri-X, /

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There were several options for black and white films back in the day. There has been a period a few years ago when suddenly the options were limited and the films sometimes hard to come by, especially for analog-camera-enthusiasts living outside m...

7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF

6 November, 2025

7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF (Z Mount) Review

By Hamish Gill

6 November, 2025

/ 35mm Lens, 7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF, Mirrorless Lens, Wide-Angle Lens, /

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As part of my transition from Sony to Nikon for my primary digital camera I am going to be testing a few more lenses from the budget end of the market. The next one the list is this, the surprisingly interesting 7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF. I have menti...

Lockdown 2025

6 November, 2025

By Geoff Chaplin

6 November, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, SmartPhone Camera, /

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We got back in the afternoon having spent several days in Osaka – for the centre of Hokkaido it was a reasonable temperature, around 9 degrees (48 in old money), but in the evening the weather was horrible, heavy rain and a storm. The house was co...

Minolta X700 SLR with two lenses and old camera bag.

6 November, 2025

5 Frames at Penmon Point

By Nic

6 November, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford FP4+, Minolta X-700, /

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A trip to north Wales provided a long overdue opportunity for some ‘proper’ photography. To me that means picking up my camera and going out with the sole purpose of creating photographic images, as distinct from a walk or a visit with the camera...

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9 December, 2021

A Year in Slide Film Part 1 – Shooting – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

I was originally put off shooting slide film because I had heard that you needed to be incredibly precise with your exposure otherwise the whole shot would be ruined. Frankly, w...

8 December, 2021

5 Frames From a Trip to Sainsburys – Nikon F3 with HP5 – By Thorsten Wulff

By thorsten

England is full of amazingly nice people. After Germany was removed from the Amber List, and quarantine in a British hotel no longer needed, Nadja and me jumped into the camper ...

7 December, 2021

Getting the Shot: A Hybrid Workflow Odyssey – By Jamie Winder

By Jamie Winder

I am not a purist. Not when it comes to the things I enjoy, nor the way I work, and definitely not in the way I approach photography. I love shooting film, but will spend time i...

6 December, 2021

Ernst Leitz (Leica) Elmar 9cm f/4 Collapsible – The Near Perfect Slow Lens – By Agata Urbaniak

By Agata Urbaniak

This is a review of the Ernst Leitz (Leica) Elmar 9cm f/4 Collapsible lens. Hamish recently reviewed the huge and very fast TT Artisan 90mm 1.25. This is perhaps the antithesis ...

5 December, 2021

Carbon: A Photographic Project – By Dan Zorg

By danzorg

Carbon is a photography project shot by me and my friend Fabio Passoni from 2020 and the beginning of 2021, in the middle of the Covid pandemic. In late summer of 2019 we had ju...

4 December, 2021

Street Protests on Film: Leica M2 and Rolleiflex 2.8F – By Exphotog

By exphotog

I remember covering the Black Lives Matter protests in the US a few years ago--before I made the switch to analog full time--vividly: the police sirens, blocked streets, chantin...

3 December, 2021

Photosynthesis: A Double-Exposure Art Project – By Ben Felten

By Ben Felten

In March and April of last year I published two articles on 35mmc detailing my experiments in double-exposures. For a while now I’ve been meaning to come back and tell mor...

2 December, 2021

Continuing to Learn C-41 Developing – A Learning Journey By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

I promised a couple of commenters on my last article that I would share some of the “normal” images from my first batch of C-41 developing. Now that I’ve also shared some result...

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Walter Reumkens on Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan
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Matthew Bigwood on Kodak Tri-X 400 or Ilford HP5+ 400 who? when? where?
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