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21 November, 2025

8×10 camera for $10 in ten minutes

By Jeffery Luhn

21 November, 2025

/ Alternative Process, DIY Camera, /

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I signed up to teach a photography event to 8-year-olds at a summer activity event. It was scheduled to take place on my college campus in late June, 2025. The ‘class’ was comprised of two 1-hour sessions. My first thought – we could get she...

Life and Death in London

21 November, 2025

Life and Death in London – My photo of the year 2025

By Geoff Chaplin

21 November, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Street & Urban Photography, /

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This hasn’t been easy and I thank David, Scott and Hamish for setting me the (actually enjoyable) task. It turned out my favourite fell just outside the last 12 months (I’m taking ‘2025’ to mean the previous 12 months up to the date of writing) – ...

21 November, 2025

5 Frames with Svema Foto 100 with an Argus C3

By Brashtown Czar

21 November, 2025

/ Argus C3, Svema Film, svema foto 100, /

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I recently learned about Svema films, and was instantly intrigued by Svema Foto 100. Film from the most important Soviet film factory, still made in Ukraine, with punchy contrast, fine grain, and near-infrared sensitivity up to 750nm? I’m in...

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16 March, 2019

5 frames with an Olympus AF-1 & Revolog Snovlox – By Allysse Riordan

By Allysse Riordan

At Christmas I received a new camera, the Olympus AF-1. When I first saw it, I loved the simplicity of it, but before loading film in it I turned to Google. After all, I knew no...

15 March, 2019

Olympus XA – Shooting a roll in San Francisco – By Jacint

By jac1nt

I started shooting film 2 years ago, and in the summer of 2017 decided to go all in and sold all my digital gear. 99.99% of what I shoot is black and white Ilford films and I’m ...

14 March, 2019

5 Frames with a Leica M4 – by Jochen Utecht

By Jochen Utecht

Do I know anything? Can I explain anything? If, then not with words. I am usually good at grammar (at least in my mother tongue German) and know more words than some people but ...

13 March, 2019

5 Frames With An Olympus OM1 MD & Ilford HP5+ – By Julian Higgs

By julianhiggs

If you have read any of my previous posts, you may have noticed a growing but common thread running through them: the Olympus OM range of compact SLR cameras. I have been using ...

12 March, 2019

5 frames with the Nikon FM2 & Agfa APX 400 in my Paris – By Martina Rigotti

By martinarigotti

My dear Paris, when I came to see you on my birthday, you gave me a wonderful gift: you made me feel free to photograph. I could look through the viewfinder absolutely where, wh...

11 March, 2019

Leica M [typ 262] Review – Saying Goodbye

By Hamish Gill

I’ve decided to sell my Leica M typ 262, so I thought it about time I write a bit of a post about it. This has become a bit of a trend now, I buy a digital Leica, shoot with it ...

10 March, 2019

Nikon 28ti and 35ti – Mini-Review – By Ahmed Al Shorouqi

By Shorouqi

I don’t understand why sometimes people complain about some missing features on a compact camera. It’s 2019 and digital is yet to give us a small full frame point and shoot the ...

9 March, 2019

5 Frames With an Aires 35-IIIL – By Arran Saunders

By arransaunders

Now almost a forgotten and fairly unknown brand, Aires was once a promising Japanese camera manufacturer, operating in the 1950s and making a number of 35mm rangefinder cameras....

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