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7 November, 2025

Your photo of the year 2025 (and my photo of the year 2025)

By Hamish Gill

7 November, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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25 July, 2016

Basic Optics For Photographers In 9 Diagrams – by Aukje

By Aukje

If you have read some of my posts here, you know that I am a newbie where it comes to film photography. This time I thought I would share something about optics, a subject that ...

23 July, 2016

Building a custom Olympus 35RC – “Project Deco” – Guest post by Steve Lloyd

By Steve Lloyd

I’ve got a bit of a habit for not just picking up a camera and shooting with it. Instead, I spend a lot of time thinking about how I can modify them to improve the styling, erg...

22 July, 2016

35mm Compact Photographer #20 – Michael Rennie

By Michael Rennie

I'm Michael Rennie, I live in Wormit, Fife, Scotland, I'm father to two awesome kids; Lana and Luke and married to my best friend Kate. I'm a mechatronics engineer by day but at...

20 July, 2016

Leica M4 Competition Entries

By Hamish Gill

The Leica M4 competition is now closed. Below you can see a list of all of the entires that have so far qualified. I had a total of 373 entires, of which 357 made it through my ...

17 July, 2016

Specialist Film Camera Repair & Modification Companies

By Hamish Gill

A few weeks ago I was contacted by a chap called Matt who suggested it might be nice to create a list of reputable camera repairers. Specifically film camera repairers. Rath...

16 July, 2016

Leica M4 Review

By Hamish Gill

The Leica M4 in many people's eyes is the last of the classic Leica rangefinder cameras. In fact, if you spend any time reading around forums and websites looking for opinion on...

12 July, 2016

Lomo LC-A – 7 Alternatives to the Classic Lomo – by Alan Duncan

By Alan Duncan

The Lomo LC-A has become the iconic 'marmite' camera of our times. Whether you love or hate this Soviet era zone focus compact and what it has come to stand for (or not) - there...

10 July, 2016

An afternoon and evening at Stroud Brewery

By Hamish Gill

A couple of weeks ago I paid a visit to Stroud Brewery. Greg, the chap who owns the place, asked us if we could come along and capture some of the atmosphere of the average Frid...

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