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13 June, 2025

Olympus Evolt E1 – A Quest for Bluebells, Fairies and a House for Essex – Local Photo, Walks Pt2

By Ibraar Hussain

13 June, 2025

/ digital camera, Flora Photograpy, Landscape Photography, Olympus Digital, Olympus Evolt E1, /

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12 August, 2024

The Camera that Launched my Career… and Nearly Devastated me.

By Jeffery Luhn

I’m talking about the EXA 1-A, my first ‘grown-up’ camera. Don’t confuse this model with classic Exacta cameras with leaf or focal plane shutters. The Exa has no real shutter. T...

Minolta X-700 camera with a box of Harman Phoenix

11 August, 2024

5 Frames with a Minolta X-700 and Harman Phoenix in Krakow, Poland

By James Billings

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By Marco Andrés

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9 August, 2024

An Accidental Living-Room – A One Shot Story

By Danilo Leonardi

The photograph illustrating this post was taken nine summers ago, on a Sunday, while I was walking along the Thames Path in East London, not far from the Canada Water DLR Statio...

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Retina IIc and the Kodak Retina system

By Tony Warren

A few years ago my cousin passed her father’s Retina IIc on to me including a lens hood, a couple of filters and a 1958 copy of The Retina Way by O. R. Croy. This informative bo...

8 August, 2024

5 Frames with Ilford Ortho Plus

By Roger

I’d been wanting to try some slower films and after a review decided to try some Ilford Ortho Plus. The opportunity to try it out came with a short trip to Somerset, so I ...

8 August, 2024

Adventures in C-Mount 110-Film Scanning

By Dave Powell

In a previous article, I explored macro-photography using C-mount cine lenses attached to a Fiji X-Pro1 APS-C digital. In those three experiments, I discovered that my mounting ...

7 August, 2024

Shooting LF – Trying the Ultimate Inanimate Subject First – A One Shot Story

By Mathias Wedeken

My journey into photography started when I was about 7 years old, in the early 80s, when I got a very simple Agfa Instamatic sensor camera (it took 126 film) as a gift from my a...

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Gary Smith on Olympus Evolt E1 – A Quest for Bluebells, Fairies and a House for Essex – Local Photo, Walks Pt2
Ibraar! I was going to call out specific photos that I really liked and then realized after making my way…
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