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10 November, 2025

A Fence For Two and a Story In One (Shot)

By Omar Tibi

10 November, 2025

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Birding has been a part of me ever since I was 11, both as a passion and a way to de-stress. While I’ve taken many photos with my phone’s camera, in all of this time, I’ve never done so with a proper camera, let alone on film. Once I got my tele p...

10 November, 2025

Kamerakraft Nikon Zf Thumb Grip Review

By Hamish Gill

10 November, 2025

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This is going to be the shortest review I have ever written I think – mostly because it’s of the small, inert bit of brass that is the Kamerakraft Nikon Zf Thumb Grip. My initial interest in the Nikon Z system was through a desire to return ...

10 November, 2025

Agima – AGI’s follow-up to the Agimatic

By Bob Janes

10 November, 2025

/ AGI Agima, AGI Rangefinder, rangefinder camera, /

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Previously on Cameras of Croydon… This is my third review of a camera model from Aeronautical General Instruments of Croydon, South London, under their AGILUX brand. The AGIFlex was a 6×6 SLR with a strong resemblance to the Reflex Kore...

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13 June, 2015

Understanding lens terminology – Part 2 – Bokeh

By Hamish Gill

This post is the second part in a series of posts looking at the definitions of various lens terminology. In the first part I talked about three subjects, contrast, sharpness an...

12 June, 2015

Faye and Family – A Family shoot with a difference

By Hamish Gill

These are the last of the first batch of photos I have had back from UK Film Lab. Although they look like conventional family shots, they were actually shot for Faye’s bus...

11 June, 2015

Ma Baker – Behind the scenes at a local bakery

By Hamish Gill

Where appropriate I’ve been subtly introducing a little bit of film photography in to my working day. In this instance the brief was to capture the hustle and bustle of th...

10 June, 2015

First roll from UK Film Lab

By Hamish Gill

Having become a touch disappointed with the inconsistency of colour work I have been getting back from my local D&P, I thought it about time I tried a pro-lab. Having done a...

5 June, 2015

A roll of XP2 through the Contax T3

By Hamish Gill

I've been promising a review of the Contax T3 for some time now, it's coming, but progress has been glacially slow. It's not because I don't use the camera, I do, in fact it's a...

4 June, 2015

Petri 2.8 Color Corrected Super review – by Andrew

By Andrew

I’d never heard of a Petri camera before happening on to this Petri 2.8 Color Corrected Super… Which kind of surprised me, since it’s actually a pretty nice ca...

28 May, 2015

Understanding Lens Terminology – Part 1 – Sharpness, Contrast, 3d Pop and Flare

By Hamish Gill

I’ve spent a lot of time over the years reading online about lenses. I’ve had an interest in lenses with a discernible character for a good while before I started th...

24 May, 2015

Chinon Auto 3001 Multifocus review – by Sigurður J. Haraldsson

By Sigurður Haraldsson

Well this is my Chinon Auto 3001. A fellow film camera enthusiast was selling a part of his film camera collection few months ago on facebook and this camera was there. I liked ...

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