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A box of Kodak Tri-X 400 120 5 pack photographed by Ted Smith Photography for his online store https://shop.tedsmithphotography.co.uk

31 July, 2025

My Decision to become a New UK Film Stockist and Retailer

By TED SMITH

31 July, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Tri-X, News, /

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I have been a long time photographer who uses film. More recently, I’ve relied on Kodak Tri-X to create my dark, high-contrast portraits in the studio, sometimes at short notice and often in collaboration with hair stylists, make up artists (MUAs)...

Toileum filter set

31 July, 2025

Toileum filter set

By Geoff Chaplin

31 July, 2025

/ Lens Filter, Toileum filters, /

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Toileum – not a name I had come across before. I was looking on Amazon for a yellow filter, having left mine behind in Europe thinking I had a spare set back in Japan but I was wrong. The only yellow filters I could find on Amazon (Japan) were aro...

Bronica RF645 & (sadly empty) Aerochrome canisters.

31 July, 2025

Kodak Aerochrome – And the Economics of Shooting this Unusual Film Stock

By Nick Orloff

31 July, 2025

/ Kodak Aerochrome, Kodak Film, /

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I fell in love, instantly, the first time I saw an Aerochrome image, all those otherworldly colours! But the skin tones aren’t impacted? Absolute film magic! For me, it was the incredible work of Richard Mosse that got me hooked, but with a little...

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30 March, 2021

Butchers Cameo Quarter Plate Camera – By Emma Wheeler

By Emma Wheeler

Just over a year ago (pre-Covid 19) I was excited to discover an antique half plate mahogany folding field camera had come in for auction at work. Supposedly from sometime aroun...

29 March, 2021

5 Frames with a Canon EOS 600 and Rollei Superpan 200 in Via del Porto Fluviale – by Fabrizio Ferretti

By Fabrizio Ferretti

Just near the Gazometro there is another very interesting and suggestive area in Rome. No, I'm not talking about Fontana di Trevi, Colosseo, Piazza Navona and so on but about vi...

29 March, 2021

Rollei 35 – My Experiences and Love for these Little Cameras

By Hamish Gill

There’s a lot of cameras in the world, but in my opinion, there are only a few that look as good as the higher-end Rollei 35 series cameras. There are probably equally as few th...

28 March, 2021

5 Frames with Kiro 400 in an Olympus MJU II – By Sammy Gunnell

By Sammy Gunnell

Since my childhood obsession with basketball began, I have continued to be drawn to the aesthetic of hoops and courts. I find myself intrigued by their use (or lack of) and pres...

27 March, 2021

ADD, and My Photography or Where the Hell is the Leica? Sure I’ll Play Parcheesi!

By Gerard Exupery

OK, Buckle Up Cowboys... My grades in school were always D’s and F’s. Probably because I just didn’t go to the classes that bored me. I would go to the library and read instead....

26 March, 2021

Kershaw Penguin, Learning Photography, and My Introduction to Medium Format – By Peyton Hunter

By Peyton Hunter

When I was a young teenager, I was gifted my first ever DSLR for my birthday, a third- or fourth-hand Nikon D3100, arguably the perfect camera for someone to learn photography o...

25 March, 2021

5 Frames with a Pentax SP1000 / Zeiss Jena 50mm 2.8 and Expired FP4 – By Peter Roberts

By Peter Roberts

I can hardly remember a time when I have been without a camera. Fifty-eight years ago at the age of ten I splashed out all my holiday money on what I suppose was a VP Twin at Wo...

25 March, 2021

Fixing Vertical Rangefinder Misalignment in Compact Rangefinder Cameras – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

Those who shoot rangefinder cameras on a regular basis are probably aware of (they may even feel plagued by) vertical rangefinder misalignment. A camera rangefinder works by su...

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