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15 September, 2025

Ansco Titan – A Stylish 6×6 120 Folder

By Dave Powell

15 September, 2025

/ Ansco Medium Format Camera, Ansco Titan, Medium Format Folder, /

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3 August, 2025

Camera shutter testing device based on photodiode sensor and data-acquisition device

By Plane_wave

DIY sensor device for mechanical film camera shutter speed testing

2 August, 2025

Photographers in fiction

By Graham Spinks

I’ve just finished reading Tatjana Soli’s amazing novel The Lotus Eaters which tells the story of a female press photographer documenting the Vietnam war. As so often, I’m somet...

2 August, 2025

Widelux in the Wine Country

By Zheng Li

For a recent family vacation to Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country, I opted for a single camera and lens: the Widelux F7. This swing-lens panoramic camera, fam...

Photo of a couple leaving a Boston train station.

1 August, 2025

Be Careful with Generative AI! (One Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

On July 17, 2025, more than 1,500 anti-Trump “Make Good Trouble” protests (totaling perhaps 56,000 people) occurred across the U.S. Of these, nearly 100 groups gathered in Massa...

1 August, 2025

The mystery of the car in the attic – a one shot story

By Philip

We have all heard of barn finds – abandoned cars, tractors, sometimes even whole classic car-collections that were left to collect dust and grime in barns and garages unti...

1 August, 2025

Box Brownie model 2A.

By Tony Warren

The Kodak Box Brownie 2A and adapting it for 120 film.

A box of Kodak Tri-X 400 120 5 pack photographed by Ted Smith Photography for his online store https://shop.tedsmithphotography.co.uk

31 July, 2025

My Decision to become a New UK Film Stockist and Retailer

By TED SMITH

I have been a long time photographer who uses film. More recently, I’ve relied on Kodak Tri-X to create my dark, high-contrast portraits in the studio, sometimes at short notice...

31 July, 2025

Toileum filter set

By Geoff Chaplin

Toileum – not a name I had come across before. I was looking on Amazon for a yellow filter, having left mine behind in Europe thinking I had a spare set back in Japan but I was ...

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