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7 October, 2025

Up-Tech – A Short Roll of Questionable Photography

By Nicholas Johnson

7 October, 2025

/ Point & Shoot camera, Up-Tech point & shoot camera, /

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The Up-Tech is a camera. Mine has a face drawn on it, and I bought it after a very mild evening at a local brewery. I’ve decided to write a post about it. A 5 US$ dollar camera, a 4.20 US$ roll of film, and around 80 cents ( rounding out the cost...

7 October, 2025

5 frames in France with a Contax RX

By Alastair Bell

7 October, 2025

/ Contax RX, Fujifilm film, /

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I have a problem. I love cameras. Especially older film cameras. It’s that tactile feeling of holding it and finding all the controls under my fingertips. A couple of years ago I dug out the remnants of an earlier collection I had and starte...

Holding the HP iPaq with camera attachment

7 October, 2025

HP PhotoSmart Mobile Camera review – an SD card camera for Windows PDAs

By Charlotte

7 October, 2025

/ Compact Digital, digital camera, HP Digital Camera, HP PhotoSmart Mobile Camera, /

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In the age of smartphones, the idea of not having a camera in your pocket at all times may seem foreign. But even as far as twenty years ago, there were developments to try and make it happen. See the PDA, the darling of science fiction, and a com...

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Fake Soviet Impressionism – By Ben Garcia

By Ben G

There comes a time, in every rangefinder fanboy's/fangirl's life, when they must contemplate the inevitable: should I buy this cheap Soviet rangefinder? “Look, the Seller says e...

27 August, 2020

Pentacon Six Mini-Review – The grass isn’t always greener – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

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26 August, 2020

My Friend Jim – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

This is my friend Jim. Jim was one of those people who understood what it is like to yearn for something big where his talents could go. He was a musician and writer and even wr...

26 August, 2020

5 Frames with a White Slim Angel – Then and Now – By DeeDee Yelverton

By DeeDee Yelverton

I’m not sure how or when I first discovered the plastic White Slim Angel camera – but I think it was around 2009 or 2010. For those not familiar with this gem, it is a plastic p...

25 August, 2020

5 frames with a 360 degree Lens – By Dan Cuny

By Dan Cuny

My interest in anything photographic has spanned for more than 45 years., I've had the opportunity to photography with many different cameras and lenses in those years, from sub...

25 August, 2020

5 frames of St Ives with my Zeiss Ikon Nettar & Ilford FP4 – by Graham Spinks

By Graham Spinks

For the last 25 years I have kept an office in St Ives – not the one by the sea where aggressive gulls rip ice creams indiscriminately from the hands of hyperactive children and...

24 August, 2020

Monkeying Around with Focal Length and Perspective – by Sroyon Mukherjee

By Sroyon

When we zoom in or use a longer focal length, the subject looks bigger... other things being equal, of course. But other things need not be equal. We can, for instance, zoom in ...

24 August, 2020

Film Photography – A Realisation That Cheap Thrills Can Still Be Had!

By Hamish Gill

As with a lot of my articles, the reason I’m writing this is to solidify an idea in my head. That idea is that I have become a bit of a snob, that I’ve lost touch with something...

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Stefan Wilde on Up-Tech – A Short Roll of Questionable Photography
What a lovely post! Your composition skills don't seem to be affected much by what probably is a slightly challenging…
Alastair Bell on First Experiments with Classic Lenses and 102-megapixels of Fuji GFX 100 – By Tudor Stanescu
Interesting read and a route I'm about to head down with a GFX100S II. I'm getting a Fringer Nikon to…
Jeffery Luhn on Up-Tech – A Short Roll of Questionable Photography
Nicholas, Some funny lines in your posting that made me smile. I treasure my time spent shooting film, so I'm…

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