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8 September, 2025

Contax 167MT – an outstanding, but overlooked tool

By Peter Schu

8 September, 2025

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15 August, 2025

Kodak Retinette IB Type 037 – Cheap is Not Always Nasty

By Dave Roberts

Apart from the Pentax 17, new film cameras are not exactly hitting the shelves every month. While film continues to be popular its a fact that we have to shoot older and ageing ...

14 August, 2025

5 Frames with a Fuji X-Half

By thorsten

After writing about the adventures of Henri Cartier-Bresson (Hyères) and Robert Capa (Omaha Beach) before, this Fujifim X-Half exploit is encompassed by both of them. Fujifilm k...

14 August, 2025

Zeiss Ikon Contessa S310 with Agfa Photo APX 100 – Developed in Bellinifoto DF2 Duo Step Diafine

By Ibraar Hussain

I recently reviewed my Zeiss Ikon Contessa S310 Here. It’s a gorgeous camera, so simple to operate and a pleasure to handle and to use. The cherry on the cake is the fact ...

13 August, 2025

5 Frames with Minolta Alpha 7D – Dating My First Love Again

By Eagle Omomuro

Shortly after I started photography with a Sony Alpha 100, issued by the news agency I worked for in 2006, I began dreaming about the Minolta Alpha 7D. Back then, its price was ...

13 August, 2025

In Search of Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 4

By Scott Ferguson

If you are still reading this deep in my informal and unscientific survey of black and white film stocks, I salute your endurance in following what has evolved from a mild curio...

12 August, 2025

BW x CT x (0,1,2,3)

By Geoff Chaplin

Film photographers are smart and thoughtful so you have probably already worked out what the title means, but for those who’ve just joined from planet digital this is a test of ...

12 August, 2025

MS-Optics 50mm F1.0 ISM – The Magic Lens that Refuses to Take a Bad Picture

By Jonathan Leavitt

(Depending on what you think makes a good picture) The elusive Mr. Miyazaki Sadayasu Miyazaki started a small business in Japan in 2007 that produces new lenses based on re-imag...

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11 August, 2025

Lucky SHD400 – My Experiences

By Yuval Peleg

I started shooting film in 2019. Back then, film was quite affordable (especially by today’s standards). My first B&W roll was the venerable Ilford HP5, and I was amazed at ...

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This is precisely the reason I tried it; it seems that when I shoot for one or the other, the…
Derek Hope on A Question of a Question of Colour
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