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5 November, 2025

Original, Freewill, Artificial

By Raymond Wong

5 November, 2025

/ Still Life Photography, /

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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....

4 February, 2024

5 Frames with a Kodak Medalist II and Ektar 100

By Stuart Jenkins

Kodak’s original brochure for the Medalist II describes it as a “compact, integrated assembly”. They’re so wrong. It’s a magnificent beast. The cel...

3 February, 2024

Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 2)

By Dave Powell

In Part 1 of this article, I stumbled on a way to shoot “super-macro” photos with a vintage Contaflex SLR! And it was done without Zeiss Ikon’s “Proxar” screw-on lens adapters (...

2 February, 2024

Polaroid’s PDC-700 – A little old digicam with a big secret (Shot for Jankuary)

By Dave Powell

You’ll think I’m nuts to recommend an admittedly “janky” digital camera that dates all the way back to 1999. During the original Polaroid company’s final years before closing it...

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