This Pentax MG was a lockdown purchase. I loaded it with Ilford FP4+ but was only halfway through the film when travel restrictions were (temporarily) lifted and we left for Fra...
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I shot my first ever roll of film around 2 years ago. Since then, I have shot 5 rolls. I am no more than a beginner in film photography. It all started when I discovered a magic...
Like many of you, I’m in the habit of scanning Facebook Marketplace for interesting old cameras, with an eye towards a lose list I keep in my head. On this day, I saw one of tho...
12 October, 2020
5 Frames with the Fuji GW690 III – By Phil Steelandt
I'm learning to find the balance between the freedom and the limitations of a (huge) rangefinder. I have to confess that I am new to rangefinders. I graduated in a film school i...
A couple of weeks ago, the CAMERADACTYL Mongoose was launched on Kickstarter - it is a product designed to automate and speed up the process of digitisation of 35mm film with a ...
11 October, 2020
Found Photos – Lake Lugano, 1945/46 – By Christoph Traugott
This photos were taken by unknown (as yet) World War II Servicemen and women, likely from Peoria, Illinois going for R&R time at Lake Lugano, Italy. Lake Lugano is a glacial...
I re-discovered the 28mm focal length at 28 years of age, and it all seemed to fall in place. It was a strange sensation — analogous to a child opening a lock for the first tim...
9 October, 2020
16 Frames / A Whole Roll of Ilford HP5+ in a Box Tengor 54 – #FullRollFriday – by Steve Phillips
My son bought me a copy of David Ellwand’s “Retro Photo” for my birthday in June. An excellent book, it is a guided tour of his camera collection, with examples of the pictures ...
