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21 October, 2025

My friend Volkmar – Frames of a Life

By thorsten

21 October, 2025

/ Portrait Photography, /

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Some of you may have seen the last Wes Anderson movie, The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio del Toro used a huge fountain pen from Montblanc in it. My friend Volkmar Bendig, an actor himself, had one of those. He got it from a photographer who died in a...

21 October, 2025

5 Frames with a Canon EOS 5000, 50mm f/1.8, and Kepler 800

By Yousuf Sarfaraz

21 October, 2025

/ Canon EOS 5000, Kodak Vision3 500T, Zhenwei Kepler 800, /

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I’ve shot a variety of films before, both color and black and white, from Portra to HP5, but I had never experimented with motion picture stock like Kodak Vision3 500T. I had seen photos online and read about it, but never tested it myself. In Jul...

21 October, 2025

A Few Frames with a Canon P and how I found myself on 35mmc

By Walter Reumkens

21 October, 2025

/ Canon P, Kodak Film, Kodak UltraMax 400, /

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I have been a member of FLICKR for many years and only show my photos there. I joined when I retired and had more time for my hobby. At that time I expected to meet many like-minded people, nice people who knew the basics of photography, wanted to...

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2 March, 2019

5 Frames with a Olympus Mju II DLX – By Howard Dale

By Howard Dale

I recently visited a nearby charity store. At first I didn’t see anything of interest. Then at the back of a bin I noticed a case, possibly empty, possibly not. I took it out, h...

1 March, 2019

Nikon EM Review: The “SLR Camera for Women” – By Mike Caputo

By Mike Caputo

It's like the deodorant Secret: “Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.”... The Nikon EM perfect! I love it. There's nothing it can't do. Well... that's an exaggeration...

28 February, 2019

Olympus AZ-1 Zoom Review – a remarkably unremarkable camera – By Oliver Clarke

By Oliver

The Olympus AZ-1 Zoom is a compact zoom from the late 80s. It’s not very pretty or particularly compact and it doesn’t enjoy cult status. The zoom range is not very impressive a...

27 February, 2019

5 Frames with a Fuji GX680 – By Sergio Moura

By SergioMoura

I Can't really remember when, but my interest in photography grew really early. Our family camera was a very simple Agfamatic 100 and we used it mostly on summer vacations. I re...

26 February, 2019

Film Photography News and Interesting Reading – 25/2/2019 – By Ray Goodwin

By raygoodwinphotos

The Yasuhara is a little known LTM rangefinder from Japan - Howard writes a nicely detailed review about the T981 over on Emulsive. An uncommon camera, that might not be perfect...

26 February, 2019

5 Frames with a Nikon L35AF – By Christian Diehlmann

By Dilo87

With the way I use point and shoot cameras, it usually takes a while for me to go through a whole roll of film. I throw them in a bag or in my jacket pocket and shoot a few pict...

25 February, 2019

Understanding Shutter Speed, Aperture, Film Speed (ISO) & The Relationship Between Them

By Hamish Gill

I’ve thought about covering off some of the basic principles of photography a few times on this website, but often find myself coming to the conclusion that someone else will ha...

24 February, 2019

5 Frames with the Voigtländer Vito C – By Nigel Haycock

By NigelH

So this is the Voigtländer Vito C which is not to be confused with the Voigtländer Vito C. The crazy re-use of model names by Voigtländer and its subsequent parent companies is ...

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