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2 August, 2025

Widelux in the Wine Country

By Zheng Li

2 August, 2025

/ Panoramic Camera, Widelux F7, /

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22 April, 2023

The Collection – An Accumulation of Film Canisters

By Jeff Neale

I posted on the Facebook/Darkroom group some pictures of my old film canister collection that I’ve been accumulating on and off then on again for over forty years now. Those pix...

21 April, 2023

Hasselblad (Zeiss) Distagon 50mm f/4 Review

By Christian Schroeder

Hello there! The important thing I want to note right in the beginning: I haven't intended this article as a comprehensive, technical-focused review of the Zeiss Distagon 50mm f...

20 April, 2023

5 Frames with an Olympus OM1, a roll of HP5 and a Bridge

By Tim Wainwright

I have a few film cameras that all mean something emotional to me (my Olympus XA2 I won in a photographic competition aged 12, my OM1 was my only camera for about 20 years until...

20 April, 2023

Making Flash Work for my Photography

By Simon King

I do not like flash photography. I do not enjoy the feeling of light cutting through the darkness directly towards whomever or whatever I am photographing. However, sometimes t...

19 April, 2023

Confessions of a “Windmill Hog” (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

Yes, I confess. I’m a “Windmill Hog.” I learned this sad truth when Kate and I took a tour of the Rhine and Mosel Rivers in August, ‎2005. One of our first stops was the windmil...

19 April, 2023

So you want to get into Minox photography?

By Julian Tanase

Would it be a good move for you? I honestly don’t know. Would it? It all depends, I guess, on why you just bought one (am I right?). Perhaps you found one in an old box of stuf...

18 April, 2023

Heavens Above

By Geoff Chaplin

The City of London has many beautiful churches, and a few ruins. ‘The Friends of the City Churches’ is an architectural heritage charity helping to open the churches for visito...

18 April, 2023

That time I “half-framed” a cute Kodak Flash Bantam camera (Part 3 of 3)

By Dave Powell

When Part 2 of this three-part series went online, reader Stephen Meese made a comment that said it all: "Wait, you experimented with a different film format, AND shot without...

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