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13 August, 2020

Six of my Best Freebie Cameras – Part1: The SLRs – By Rock

By Rock

This is about six cameras that I now own; great cameras I might add. Why, because they are classics? Are they the best of their class? Great performers? Valuable? To be honest, ...

12 August, 2020

Artefacts of a Laboratory – Adapting an enlarging lens to a Sony DSLR – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

This story began when a few days ago I looked for the entry “Photography” in the well-known DUDEN thematic dictionary (Bildwörterbush of Duden - Leipzig 1940 - also published in...

12 August, 2020

5 Frames with Konica Auto S2 and Ilford FP4+ – By Kevin Ortner

By Kevin Ortner

Some people drive home from work, park there car somewhere on the street, go inside, do whatever they do, sleep, wake up, eat, and get in their car knowing it will turn on and g...

11 August, 2020

Sprocket Rocket 2.0 Review – A Day at the Fair – By Alex Vye

By Alex Vye

The Sprocket Rocket is a plastic, panoramic 35mm camera that offers a 1:3 aspect ratio. The lens is a 30mm with f/10.8 and f/16 settings, and a fixed mechanical shutter with a s...

11 August, 2020

Disposable Camera Holiday Snaps – Moments of Truth (Part One) – By Brian Nicholls

By MrSnappy

We’ve all got George Eastman and his Brownie cameras to thank for creating the tool for vernacular photography. That simple principle of combining a single element, fixed focus ...

10 August, 2020

Minolta X300 – Turning Back Time with my 35 Year Old SLR – By Richard Wilford

By Richard Wilford

I was given a Minolta X300 for my 21st birthday. It wasn’t my first camera but it was my first SLR, and I’m still using it 35 years later. For 23 years it was virtually all I us...

10 August, 2020

Contax RTS Review – Second Time Lucky

By Hamish Gill

The Contax RTS is a camera I’ve now had two experiences with. In fact, most of the content of this review was written around the time of first contact with one. That earlier ver...

9 August, 2020

A Day Out with the Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 AIS and Nikon D850 DSLR – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

This lockdown has resulted in me spending a lot of time wandering around with a camera to stay busy and sane. I'm sure many of you can relate. When not tearing my hair out with...

davesurrey on 5 Frames after a Storm with a Pentax MX and Lomography Berlin 400
Hi Jason, I'll be honest and say that the large amount of grain isn't for me but at least it…
Tony Warren on Kodak Easyshare Z950 – A classic “Kodak Color Science” Digi Cam
That colour is really Kodachrome on steroids isn't it? And the lens performance leaves little to be desired. My Olympus…
Reinhold on 5 Frames after a Storm with a Pentax MX and Lomography Berlin 400
Oh the wonderful MX :) Beautiful images you made, Jason. My favorites are the wires and the man, sweeping the…

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