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18 July, 2025

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time

By Martin H

18 July, 2025

/ Finding Film Photography, Reflecting on the past, /

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11 November, 2017

Experiments in Developing Colour Film At Home: The Chemicals Dilemma – by Aukje

By Aukje

My second year of shooting film – Part 16 (Read Part 15 here) For about nine months now I have been developing colour film at home, so I thought it was time to share some ...

9 November, 2017

5 Frames with a Ricoh ZF – By James Cockroft

By James Cockroft

The Ricoh 35 ZF is a fixed lens, zone focus compact from the mid 1960s. I’m not sure where mine came from: maybe my step dad, or Grandfather, or an aunt. It doesn’t ...

8 November, 2017

Stop bloody moaning and support the Film Photography industry!

By Hamish Gill

The last few weeks I’ve seen a great deal of moaning about two new film photography products that have been launched on the crowdfunding platforms. Those product being Silberra ...

7 November, 2017

5 Frames with a Minolta CLE & M-Rokkor 40mm – By Dan Diaz

By Dan Diaz

I love 35mmc. It’s celebrates 35mm compact cameras which I preferred as I shoot mainly life/street photography. Before I had the Minolta as my daily camera I have been usi...

5 November, 2017

Leica M-Mount Modified Yashica Electro 45mm f/1.7 lens

By Hamish Gill

Regular readers of this website will be aware of my interest in modified and modifying lenses to work on Leica cameras. I guess this is why Ellis, or f1.420 as he goes by on Ins...

4 November, 2017

Snapshots of a Commute – by Greg May

By Greg May

It is dark. Cold. Wet. Normal really. Spring in the Calderdale Valley is not a time to rejoice for the green shoots of a new year, but a time to wait for the sun to finally cres...

2 November, 2017

5 Frames with a Nikon F301 – by Ed Worthington

By Ed Worthington

Hello again, I have returned with another 5 frames from another camera in my arsenal, this time I introduce you to the Nikon F301. Probably the most amateur of the SLR’s Nikon r...

31 October, 2017

5 frames with a Contax T – By Gavin Maxwell

By Gavin Maxwell

I think I’ve found my perfect 35mm camera! Pocket-sized, fantastic quality, and a joy to use: the Contax T. In fact it’s so good I bought it twice! I had a silver one, but in a ...

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David Hume on 10 Frames – A Whole Pack of Polaroid SX70 – Venice 1995 #FullRollFriday by David Hume
Cheers Ibraar, yes, I'm very glad to have these things digitised, which of course was not a thing back in…
Geoff Chaplin on Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time
I need to go to photography school after seeing many of those images. Interesting read, albeit depressing - where did…
David Hume on 10 Frames – A Whole Pack of Polaroid SX70 – Venice 1995 #FullRollFriday by David Hume
Cheers Gary - great questions. The colours were very good, unchanged as far as my memory goes. (The yellow one…

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