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18 September, 2025

Nicéphores window – A One Shot Story

By thorsten

18 September, 2025

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8 February, 2024

Falling in Love with Film & Promising to not buy a Leica M3 – Part One

By Zach Chmael

I’m going to talk about myself first. I know – “Another self-indulgent millennial who spent their formative years being told that they were special amongst a sea of beige… delud...

AstrHori 18mm F8 Periprobe Lens with 90 degree rotation

7 February, 2024

NEWS: AstrHori Upgrades APS-C 18mm F8 Macro Periprobe Lens with 90-Degree Rotation Flexibility

By Molly Kate

AstrHori has released an improved 18mm F8 periprobe lens for APS-C sensors that now features a 90-degree rotation to enable four different shooting angles. Previously, AstriHori...

7 February, 2024

5 Frames with the MiniCam 100k – My Jankuary project

By Steven G

I liked the idea of Jankuary when the first posts appeared, and started wondering what I could use. Ideally without buying anything! I considered my early Fujifilm bridge camera...

7 February, 2024

Ilford PanF 50 Plus in the Photography Studio

By TED SMITH

In this article, I briefly discuss use of Ilford PanF 50 Plus in the studio for portraiture – specifically, mother and baby styled shoots I’ve been a photographer for a lo...

6 February, 2024

Self-Publishing Books of Your Photography for the Skint Neophyte

By Jim Grey

Many of us in this film-photography hobby want to print books of our work. We share our photographs online, which is great, but there’s just something about people holding...

6 February, 2024

Drinking Districts in Japan VII: Obihiro

By Geoff Chaplin

We went to Obihiro primarily to eat – the food seems so much better than the area where we live – and also to see a friend; unexpectedly I came back with a large present – a Pen...

5 February, 2024

Fuji MX-500 – 5 Frames for Jankuary with my first digital camera

By Roger

Given that others are digging out newer cameras for Jankuary, I decided to take another look at my first digital camera – a Fujifilm MX-500. This had a 1.5 megapixel camer...

5 February, 2024

Intrepid 4×5 – One Year of Traveling – a Review, Thoughts, and Photos

By Sam Forrest

If you like to shoot film, then you understand that it isn’t every day that a camera maker comes to market with a line of new cameras, let alone large format view cameras....

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Avy Ferguson on Konica Minolta Dimage X1 – It’ll put you off Photography for life
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