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16 March, 2024

7Artisans 50mm 1.8 AF – A Brand New Budget Auto Focus Lens

By Hamish Gill

The 7Artisans 50mm 1.8 AF is a brand new full frame autofocus lens. I have been beta testing and playing with pre-release versions here for a while and have been looking forward...

15 March, 2024

The Whole Roll: Ilford FP4+ at the London New Years Day Parade (2024)

By Simon King

The first roll I shot this year was exposed during the London New Years Day Parade in Central London. It was the first time I’ve had the opportunity to walk in the parade,...

15 March, 2024

Orwo Wolfen NC-500 – A Contrarian’s Perspective

By Bob Prendergast

In my life, I’ve rarely been one to succumb to peer pressure. Whatever cool new thing everyone else has, you can be sure that Bob will find a different way. When I was a teenage...

14 March, 2024

How Privacy Hysteria Killed Street-Photography

By Andrea Monti

At other times I would have dismissed this image as ‘out of focus’ and unusable. Just another missed shot caused by poor focusing technique on a fully manual film camera. Nowada...

Dave Shrewsbury - self portrait with the Minolta X-700

14 March, 2024

5 Frames with a Minolta X-700 and Tri-X

By Dave Shrewsbury

When I first got back into shooting film around 2013, the first film SLR I acquired after a brief flirtation with lomography cameras was the Minolta X-700. I got it and a couple...

13 March, 2024

A Note on the Concept of “Correct” Exposure

By Geoff Chaplin

“My camera just nails the exposure”. How often have you heard that or a similar comment from someone praising the technical abilities of their new digital camera? Bu...

13 March, 2024

A Roll of Delta 400 and the Walk to ICP

By John Pemberton

Every other year, Jenny and I visit NYC the week of Thanksgiving. It coincides with the week-long break that the university grants to students and faculty. The trip reminds me...

12 March, 2024

5 Frames with Lomography Orca 110 monochrome film.

By Tony Warren

The first film I tried when I became fascinated by the subminiature formats was Lomography’s Orca 110 monochrome offering because I had bought a Minolta 460 Tx 110 camera very r...

Graham Line on A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
My dealer let me try the 3.5 and 'fast' versions of the Super-Takumar 28 side by side and, for me,…
Michael Keppler on A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power
In an age increasingly marked by division and hatred, it would be nice if photography, and especially a site devoted…
JA on A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power
Styles come and go. None of those buildings look particularly special. They are just the style of a time there…

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