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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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23 April, 2018

Sansome Walk – The Silent Leisure Centre

By Hamish Gill

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to explore a disused leisure centre in my home city of Worcester. As somewhere I’d been a fair few times when it was open there was a...

22 April, 2018

Voitlander Vitomatic II Review – by Nigel Haycock

By NigelH

This is one of my favourite little 35mm rangefinders, the Voigtländer Vitomatic II. This is such a great little camera, it is simple to use and very compact; making it perfect t...

21 April, 2018

Chinon 35 FS-II Review – Birth of a Review – By Ian

By Ian

This is a camera review and a birth story. Yes, you read that right. Chinon was a camera and movie camera lens manufacturer famous from its long line of film SLRs that uses eit...

20 April, 2018

Good night sweetheart & my little rant about toothpaste

By Hamish Gill

Anil Mistry has become a fairly regular contributor to this website, I’ve also met him on a photowalk, joined his Unusual Eyes photo group of his on Facebook, helped him sell so...

19 April, 2018

5 frames with a Leica M6 TTL and 7artisans 35mm f/2 Sonnar – by EMULSIVE

By EMULSIVE

I guess I should start off by saying that I’m not a fan of the 35mm focal length and with SLRs at least, I’ve never gotten on with it. It feels too wide but then aga...

18 April, 2018

5 Frames with the Minolta Maxxum 7000 – By Chris McPhee

By Chris McPhee

I was recently looking for another 35mm camera and, browsing the web one lunchtime, I came across some reviews of the Minolta Maxxum 7000. A while later I found one at a local c...

17 April, 2018

5 frames with a Nikon FM3A and Nikkor 28-70mm 2.8 D – by John Whitmore

By John Whitmore

Dang, this lens is heavy. It seems to pull on the body of the FM3a as if it’s trying to escape using gravity as a weapon and 900g as ammunition. But little does it know that al...

15 April, 2018

Beers & Cameras Birmingham – 24/03/18 – and, how we didn’t let the racists ruin our day…

By Hamish Gill

A couple of weeks ago I met up with around 20 other photographers in the centre of Birmingham for a bit of a Beers & Cameras photowalk. We met some angry football fans, angry an...

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