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30 October, 2025

Printing Live: What I Learned from Sharing the Darkroom in Real Time

By Tom Warland

30 October, 2025

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21 February, 2025

BlackBox Holo MF and 135 film digitiser – a Review

By Geoff Chaplin

This is a review of the BlackBox Holo MF and 135 film digitiser. If this looks familiar its because I wrote a review of their 35mm film scanner on 23rd May 2024. I found that sc...

Photograph of a Minolta AF-Sv camera (front view) surrounded by rolls of film

21 February, 2025

Minolta AF-S V&D — What was the mind of Minolta thinking?

By Benjamin Chan

I can be a sucker for gimmicks, and the Minolta Talker is as gimmicky as they come. The Talker, also branded as the AF-Sv, is a variant of the AF-S with the same lens and featur...

20 February, 2025

5 Frames with various cameras – Ferrari On The Road(s)

By Andrea Monti

Sports car photography usually happens in specific settings such as motorshows, official events, race tracks etc., where lights, crowds, fences and limited access to restricted ...

20 February, 2025

10 Shots in 10 Minutes on a Leica M3 with Kodak Ultramax 400 in Banff, Alberta

By Scott Ferguson

Showing my family the grandeur of the Canadian Rockies was not going to plan. My wife and son had flown in from New York a few days before and the centerpiece of the trip was t...

19 February, 2025

Adventures with my 50-year-old OM-1 and some new issues with scanning

By Art Meripol

This was going to be about my old original Olympus OM-1 but it really just reflects a journey that might feel familiar to many within the world of film photography today… ...

19 February, 2025

The Winter of a Lake

By Julian Tanase

It’s always interesting, at least for me, to visit and observe small communities during or around the holidays. This time I happened to be in a small village somewhere in the Bu...

18 February, 2025

A personal view of the CCD versus CMOS debate.

By Tony Warren

There has been quite a bit of discussion recently about the relative merits of CCD and CMOS sensors. I did some further reading and came across this article. The most interestin...

Envelope from Scotland with returned roll of 35mm film

18 February, 2025

Never leave a roll behind…

By Mike Riess

In June of 2023, I set off on a two-week trip to Scotland. For weeks before I left, I agonized over what to bring, as we were trying to travel light. In the end, I decided on my...

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