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17 February, 2026

Pentacon 50mm 1.8 and Nikon Z5 – An Empirical Field Test

By Andrea Monti

17 February, 2026

/ 50mm Lens, normal lens, Pentacon 50mm 1.8, /

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18 June, 2024

5 Frames with a Fujifilm GA645

By Eric

I have never gone through film as quickly as I have with the Fujifilm GA645. Ten rolls in the first week of ownership. There are other cameras I profess to really like that have...

17 June, 2024

Pentax 17 Comprehensive Review – The New Half-Frame Point & Shoot

By Hamish Gill

I’ve been writing about film cameras for a long time now, but the release of a new film camera from a major brand like Pentax feels somehow more significant than most, if not al...

Rollei RPX 25 at 100asa in Rodinal 100:1

17 June, 2024

Rollei RPX 25 at 100 ASA stand developed in Rodinal 100:1

By Geoff Chaplin

I decided to expose RPX 25 (two years past its use by date) at 100asa unfiltered. Why? Well (a) I am after all British, and that’s the sort of stupid thing we do sometimes, (b) ...

17 June, 2024

Adox CHS 100 II – First Impressions

By Geoff Chaplin

Adox CHS 100 II is an orthopanchromatic film on a PET base. Orthopanchromatic? What is that? In brief, somewhere between ortho and pan, but the long and better explanation is as...

16 June, 2024

London Tube Riders Having the Time of their Lives, or Perhaps Not

By Danilo Leonardi

Visualise entering a space lit by artificial light, where the outlining of day and night blurs, and everything you see is human-made. It is an environment where the architecture...

15 June, 2024

Seeking Stefan – A One Shot Story

By Peter Roberts

According to my friend Stefan I have a doppelgänger. He goes by the name of Robert apparently. Although doppelgänger usually receive a bad press I’ve never really consider...

Jimmy taking a picture on a medium format camera, with a building behind with red paint on.

15 June, 2024

One Photographer and Two Cameras for Spares & Repairs

By Joel Rouse

My last article, Two Photographers, One Camera, and the Crushing Disappointment of Film, attracted a fair amount of comments—encouraging and not-so-encouraging. The results from...

14 June, 2024

Modifying and Shooting a Sprocket Rocket in Oxford

By Charles Higham

This project aimed to improve the quality of the images produced by the Lomography Sprocket Rocket. The Sprocket Rocket is a plastic camera designed to achieve and does deliver ...

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