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19 May, 2025

Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush

By Ibraar Hussain

19 May, 2025

/ Compact Digital, digital camera, Olympus Digital, Olympus XZ-1, /

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27 March, 2025

A night by the banyan with Nikon FM2 and Tollygrunge Noir

By Aswin Sai Narain S

It was late in the evening and I was starting to get restless, which is not unusual when I seem to have nothing to do. Then I figured out that I actually had something to do, wh...

The Vivitar keychain camera purchased from Walmart for $5.

27 March, 2025

5 Frames of Grandkids with a $5 Digital Camera from Walmart

By Scott Bassett

I’m cheap. Not as cheap as my youngest brother. He once tried to negotiate the price when on the phone ordering a take-out pizza. So when the popular Slickdeals website li...

26 March, 2025

Why a Longterm Relationship (with your camera) Makes You Feel Good

By Andrea Monti

There is no ‘forever’ in life (life included), and apart from more mundane matters, this is especially true of photography. In fact, the ‘infidelity rate’...

26 March, 2025

Some bad luck, good fortune, and a Leica M6 on a Sunny (16) day

By Matt Reverzani

My story begins with some good fortune and some bad luck. I purchased a Leica MP about a year ago; this was the good fortune! But recently it started to develop an unusual crack...

25 March, 2025

The Boat and the Heron – One Shot Story

By Callum Stanton

Maybe you’ve experienced it – a moment so still it seems like time has stopped. It could be from intense focus or a deep calm, but the moment has probably cemented ...

25 March, 2025

Malvern Hills Cloud Inversion with a Pentax Q7

By Hamish Gill

Over the Christmas break, we had a series of maybe 5 days of fog. It was that proper fog that just doesn’t seem to go away throughout the day and after a while starts to ...

24 March, 2025

Harman Red – My First Roll Experiences

By Hamish Gill

Harman recently released a new film, Harman Red. In case it’s not obvious from its name, it’s called Red because it’s a red scale film, i.e. it makes red ph...

polaroid lab and film with polaroid prints

24 March, 2025

We have lift off! Polaroid lift off that is…

By Laura Cogan

Here we go again and by jove this time we have achieved lift off! Polaroid lift off that is. Let me take you on a messy journey through my first attempt at this beautiful medium...

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Peter Roberts on Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush
Gorgeous images as usual, Ibraar. Especially the portraits. Your talent for capturing the highlights in the eyes always impresses me;…
Eric George Rose on Shooting Italian 5 birilli
Well done! I would imagine you needed to use the same level of concentration setting up your shots as the…
John H Osterholm on Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush
The photos remind me of Kodachrome. You have some outstanding pictures and I envy your skill

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