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20 June, 2025

Weston Master V – a Review of the Masterful Exposure Meter

By Bob Janes

20 June, 2025

/ Light Meter, Weston Light Meter, Weston Master 5, /

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11 May, 2020

Mamiya DSX 1000B Review

By Natalie B.

In the modern day, the Mamiya name is pretty much synonymous with medium format cameras. Some film photography enthusiasts might not even know that the company also produced man...

11 May, 2020

Fuji X100V – A (Personal) Guide to Mode/Menu/Button Customisations

By Hamish Gill

This is my second more significant article in a series I am intending to write about my experiences with the Fuji X100v, in my first article I talked about why I was initially a...

10 May, 2020

35mm in the Time of Coronavirus – By Steph Powell

By Stephanie Powell

Our family camera was kept in a sock drawer. It was brought out of the Queen Anne cupboard for family occasions during the 90s. Dad would load the film into the chamber. It woul...

10 May, 2020

5 Frames of North London Locked Down with a Voigtlander Bessa L- By Michael Scott

By scottfotodotcom

In these quite extraordinary times of Covid - 19 it is a challenge to all photographers to capture images of what is probably going to be the most significant event of this gene...

9 May, 2020

5 Frames in Barcelona with Leica M3 and Lomography Potsdam – By Steve Karsten

By stevekars

I went to Barcelona for the first time in September of 2019. I was in awe of the beautiful, vibrant city as much as the beautiful, vibrant people that live there. Walking Barc...

8 May, 2020

29 Frames / A Whole Roll (Almost) of Rollei Retro 400s – #FullRollFriday – by Gary Quinn

By Gary Q

Lockdown, quarantine, self-isolating, social distancing; call it what you like it boils down to one thing - we’re staying in today. That’s what we do every day now. We don’t go ...

8 May, 2020

Olympus Pen EE-3 Review – A Weekend in Prague – by John Hanson

By John

The hardest decision for me when taking any trip is deciding which camera to take with me. Many of you reading this will share this problem I’m sure. I manage to get away so inf...

7 May, 2020

Honing In On Areas For Improvement – My First Steps into Analogue – Part 2 – By Andrea Bevacqua

By Andrea Bevacqua

Moving on from my first experiences, and having a lot of spare time, I was thinking how I could improve and enjoy more my journey. In doing so, I identified two main points. I n...

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Scott Ferguson on Magnolia – Spring flowers with a Hasselblad and two Leicas
Thanks Ibraar! I love your floral photos of the bluebells, so right back at you!
Hannah Gimblett on A Photo That Came From Nothing – One Shot Story
You're very welcome, Eagle. That makes total sense and is a beautiful way of putting it. It is always brilliant…
Curtis Heikkinen on Byzantium – Ancient Constantinople, Modern Istanbul – On Film and Through the eye of my Contax G2
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