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16 October, 2025

The Rover returns – A one shot story

By Paul Quellin

16 October, 2025

/ automotive photography, Ilford Film, Ilford Ortho Plus, Mamiya C220, /

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As an impressionable thirteen year old, the new Rover P6 3500 S driven by Dave, one of my snorkelling instructors, had me transfixed. The smart Rover ferried a few of us to a location in North Wales for our open water test. Dave had surreptitiousl...

16 October, 2025

Cinevilla in Black and White: Shooting the Nikon FE2, 28mm f/2.8 AIS, and Kodak 400TX in Latvia’s open-air film studio

By Felix Flores Rodriguez

16 October, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Tri-X, Nikon FE2, /

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Photography as an art form has been around since 1826 or 1827. Nicephore Niépce used heliography with a pewter plate coated in bitumen. The development process took around 8 hours to complete. The daguerreotype was introduced in 1839 by Louis Dagu...

16 October, 2025

5 Frames with Kentmere 400 along Portugal’s coastline

By Vincent Botton

16 October, 2025

/ Kentmere 400, Kentmere Film, Voigtlander Bessa R4a, /

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There was definitely a time where I thought I needed the right camera to make photographs at my highest potential. Piggybacking off my last ‘5 frames’ article, where I suggested going for an aimless stroll can help increase the calmness in your m...

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6 May, 2025

5 Frames from Vintage Medium Format 645 Folder from Japan

By Scott Bassett

My return to photography progressed to the point of curiosity about medium format film and cameras. To satisfy that itch, I purchased from Jeff Gurthrie at Japan Vintage Camera ...

5 May, 2025

Rolleiflex SL35 – A Review of a West German made 35mm SLR

By Ibraar Hussain

This is a review of a camera (or cameras) I once had. As with most of what I had I sold on a knee jerk and regret it ever since. The Rolleiflex SL35 was Franke & Heidecke fi...

4 May, 2025

Spring into Summer – Bluebells and Poppies on Film (Fujifilm NPH400 Fujichrome Velvia 50 Agfachrome RSX II 200)

By Ibraar Hussain

Spring is here at last, after the wash out last year, this 2025 in East Anglia has been quite nice, lovely sunshine though there’s still a chill in the air. I haven’...

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3 May, 2025

On Grief and Capturing Memories

By Darren Nelson

Photographs are the closest thing we have to permanent memories. Alternatively, photographs capture a the details of light that can’t change due to age, context or existen...

2 May, 2025

Fast Box One Shutter Speed Checker Review

By Dan Cuny

Being a camera collector for more than 50 years, I’d like to see the accuracy of the shutter speeds on the cameras I’ve purchased. Many of the shutter speed testers ...

1 May, 2025

Ensign Selfix 820 and a roll of FP4+ in Birmingham

By Roger

I have long been interested in trying a camera with larger negatives, but because the Fuji GW690 is rather expensive for something that might turn out to be of no more than nove...

30 April, 2025

5 Frames of an Obsession, with a Hasselblad 500 C/M

By Ron Duda

On my way to the gym three or four days a week through the winter months, I drive past an old house just at the edge of the urban boundary in Hamilton Ontario. I still call it ...

30 April, 2025

Central Coffee To Go – an Impromptu Gallery

By Julian Tanase

I do not visit the downtown very often these days, no reason. The weather here was and still is total crap for the last few months; the grey of the city bears down heavy on my m...

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