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6 November, 2025

Kodak Tri-X 400 or Ilford HP5+ 400 who? when? where?

By Giacomo Cecot

6 November, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford HP5+, Kodak Film, Kodak Tri-X, /

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There were several options for black and white films back in the day. There has been a period a few years ago when suddenly the options were limited and the films sometimes hard to come by, especially for analog-camera-enthusiasts living outside m...

7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF

6 November, 2025

7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF (Z Mount) Review

By Hamish Gill

6 November, 2025

/ 35mm Lens, 7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF, Mirrorless Lens, Wide-Angle Lens, /

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As part of my transition from Sony to Nikon for my primary digital camera I am going to be testing a few more lenses from the budget end of the market. The next one the list is this, the surprisingly interesting 7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF. I have menti...

Lockdown 2025

6 November, 2025

By Geoff Chaplin

6 November, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, SmartPhone Camera, /

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We got back in the afternoon having spent several days in Osaka – for the centre of Hokkaido it was a reasonable temperature, around 9 degrees (48 in old money), but in the evening the weather was horrible, heavy rain and a storm. The house was co...

Minolta X700 SLR with two lenses and old camera bag.

6 November, 2025

5 Frames at Penmon Point

By Nic

6 November, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford FP4+, Minolta X-700, /

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A trip to north Wales provided a long overdue opportunity for some ‘proper’ photography. To me that means picking up my camera and going out with the sole purpose of creating photographic images, as distinct from a walk or a visit with the camera...

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15 July, 2020

Mask portraits – Koniflex TLR and Portra 400 – by Peter Schafer

By Peter Schafer

For a long time I've wanted to take portraits of strangers, but have been afraid to try. I like taking portraits. And I like taking pictures of strangers, but always rather furt...

14 July, 2020

5 Frames with an Olympus OM-10 and Ilford HP5 Plus – By Sam Larson

By Sam Larson

My Olympus OM-10 was a mistake. I hadn’t owned an SLR since I claimed my dad’s OM-2 for a high school photography class. I’d bought an Olympus 35RC a couple months prior and lov...

14 July, 2020

Yashica Mat-124G – Perspective From a Newbie – By Salman Rameli

By salmanrameli

Gear acquisition syndrome got the best of me during this quarantine, and I found myself as the new owner of a Yashica Mat-124G on first week of May. It was pretty easy to convin...

13 July, 2020

Mamiya C330 Review – The hunt for the perfect 6×6 – By Anton McCloud

By Anton McCloud

The Mamiya C330 is one of those cameras that ‘got away’ for me. TLRs are a bit of a love hate relationship. When I was starting to shoot medium format, I spent many nights trawl...

13 July, 2020

Cameradactyl OG – 5×4 Large Format Snapshot Camera Review

By Hamish Gill

The Cameradactyl OG is a camera I have been meaning to write about since, well, ages ago (sorry Ethan). It's also my first large format camera review, and indeed the first large...

12 July, 2020

Bronica SQ-B – Panoramic Shooting with a Medium Format Camera – By Noel Roque

By Noel Roque

For quite some time I have been enjoying the Mamiya 6 with its trio of 50/75/150mm lenses, alongside the Fujifilm TX-1 (aka Hasselblad Xpan) panoramic camera. I had recently ret...

11 July, 2020

5 frames with a Centon DF-300 & Miranda 24mm f/2.8 MC MACRO – by Charles Higham

By Charles Higham

One of the things I've discovered learning about photographic equipment is that the name on a camera or lens doesn't always tell you the whole story. Occasionally you'll see the...

10 July, 2020

25 frames / a whole roll developed by me for the first time in 30 years – #FullRollFriday – by Rock

By Rock

You have probably guessed by the title that's it's been a long time since I developed my own film. It was something that I did all the time in my youth. In fact, it was a requir...

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