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1 April, 2026

24 Frames with the Fujica GW690III in Brighton on Valentine’s Day, 2026 (3 Whole Rolls)

By Simon King

1 April, 2026

/ Expired Film, Film Theory, Ilford Delta 3200, Ilford Film, ilford FP4+, Kodak Film, Kodak T-max 100, /

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2 August, 2016

Why & how I made a DIY 35mm mini-Viewfinder – Guest post by Eddy

By Eddy

One day I was going through a bag of knackered old point and shoots looking for a decent donor lens to use on a cardboard camera I was making (as you do) when I noticed that nea...

30 July, 2016

Hacking a 35mm viewfinder out of a Canon AF7 – Guest post by Frank Lehnen

By Frank Lehnen

I wondered if it was possible to use the gorgeous viewfinder of this humble lump of plastic on a real camera such as the LEICA IIIa which has a definitely crappy viewfinder - at...

25 July, 2016

RNI ‘Really Nice Images’ Review – and some wider thoughts on film simulation

By Hamish Gill

What do you think of the 6 images below? Are they film or digital. Some of them are film (obviously digitised), and some of them are digital, some of which have been made to loo...

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...

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Jeffery Luhn on 24 Frames with the Fujica GW690III in Brighton on Valentine’s Day, 2026 (3 Whole Rolls)
Simon, Those are quite nice for grab shots! I have about 30 rolls of out dated FP4 at school. Mostly…
Gary Smith on 24 Frames with the Fujica GW690III in Brighton on Valentine’s Day, 2026 (3 Whole Rolls)
The shots on T-Max work best for me.
Gary Smith on Never meet your heros – Misadventures in Camera Repair Land
Although I've braved cracking open mechanical watches I don't think I'll ever touch a camera with any electronic guts (probably…

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