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30 June, 2025

Fujifilm X100VI – One Camera and 1½ Lenses for Travel – with a Pocket of Light

By Paul Chance

30 June, 2025

/ Compact Digital, Fuji Digital, Fujifilm X100VI, /

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31 August, 2018

5 frames with a Fujica GW690 and a roll of Cinestill 50D – By Irv Bartlett

By irvb

As a young man in the early 90s I shot mainly with a Nikon F801s and a Seagull 6x6. Always wanting a "proper" medium format camera the nearest I got was picking up a brochure fo...

30 August, 2018

5 Frames with a Nikonos V – by Dirk Marwede

By Dirk Marwede

I picked up a Nikonos V with a 35mm lens for family holidays in the hot summer of 2018 at Garda lake, Italy. Being with kids on holidays, it is always a good idea to have a toug...

29 August, 2018

5 Frames from my First Roll of Kodak Portra 160 – By Stu Myers

By StuMPhoto

The shots in this post are from a roll of Kodak Portra 160 very kindly donated by Kodak Alaris at the Beer and Cameras Birmingham photowalk. Colour film is a bit of an enigma to...

28 August, 2018

5 Frames with a Smena Symbol

By Natalie B.

Despite shooting film for almost nine years now, until recently I have never taken a picture on black and white film. It just wasn't my thing. But when I got two rolls of Ilford...

27 August, 2018

Silver Springs and a Voigtländer Vitomatic I – By Anthony Rue

By anthony.rue

By the time Voigtländer released the Vitomatic I in 1957, Silver Springs had been Florida's premiere tourist destination for almost 100 years. Over 500 million gallons of pristi...

26 August, 2018

Contax TVSii – a review with a few comparisons to the T2

By Hamish Gill

The Contax TVSii is the 2nd of 3 zoom lens cameras in the Contax T range - the TVS came before, and the TVSiii followed. Though quite similar in appearance to the fixed focal le...

25 August, 2018

5 Frames With A Chinon 35EE – By Nigel Cliff

By Nigel Cliff

I won’t bore you with a life history, suffice to say I have been photographing for 42 years through manual focus, onto autofocus, onto digital with AF everything; and then for t...

24 August, 2018

5 Frames with the Pentax 67 – By Louis Sousa

By LASousa

The Pentax 67 is out of character for 35mmc being big and hardly pocketable. My mirror lockup model was sourced from Jeremy at Japan Camera Hunter. Since obtaining the camera I'...

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JA on Ausgeknipst Reels – Developing 16mm (or 110) in the Paterson tank
meant to say. the little keeper box for holding it all together during darkbag shenanigans is inspired
JA on Ausgeknipst Reels – Developing 16mm (or 110) in the Paterson tank
yeah the 4 in one go is quite a trick. you cut the female core of a Patterson reel down.…
Paul C on Nikon F-301 (N2000) – In Defence of Nikon’s Ugly Duckling – By Brian J. Grossman
and a postscript - the Nikon SB600 speedlight manages TTL Flash exposure for all the film cameras from the FA…

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