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15 July, 2025

Underground 1 – The Sewers, with a Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f1.5

By Geoff Chaplin

15 July, 2025

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4 October, 2022

[Another] 5 frames with Kodak Ultramax 400 & a Canon Sprint – By Michael Maliner

By Michael Maliner

In March of 2021, I found myself shooting film for the first time in many years. As mentioned in my prior “5 frames with…”, my earliest rolls were mostly about chasing the orang...

3 October, 2022

Voigtänder Skopagon 40mm f2 – a Vintage Lens with Modern Performance – By Oliver Toth

By cmf

For most people, the choice of lens comes down to a choice between vintage and modern. Modern lenses with aspherical elements and modern coating tend to produce very sharp image...

2 October, 2022

Youtube. Where I Find Inspiration in a World Where Everyone is a Photographer… – By Royce

By Royce

Where to find some decent inspso…? it’s a question I ponder as I sit chained to my work desk doing (cough cough) “important” non photography related work that ...

1 October, 2022

Voigtländer Vito CL – The Dad Cam – By Hans Gastafsson

By Hans Gustafsson

I can't recall any family vacation, outing, gettoghether when I was young that my dad didn't have his Voigtländer with him. It almost seemed an integral part of him. Not that he...

30 September, 2022

Holga Week Event and Competition Starts October 1st

By Molly Kate

Holga Week is here! The annual worldwide celebration of the humble Holga camera begins this Saturday, October 1, 2022. The main event is organized by Mr. Holga and features an e...

30 September, 2022

Minolta Hi-Matic 7s – My Gateway Drug into the World of Camera Collecting – By Markus Hainz

By Markus Hainz

As with most photographers over a certain age, I began my photography shooting film back in the late 1980s. By the mid 2000s I was shooting only digital for work and decided to ...

29 September, 2022

New Caffenol Printing Workshop by Darkroom London

By Molly Kate

Darkroom London announced a new offering in their workshop repertoire, Caffenol Printing! The first workshop took place on September 18th, but they are planning a second one for...

29 September, 2022

For Quick Film Scans, Try an Olympus C-8080WZ!

By Dave Powell

An old friend recently asked if I could digitize some 35mm slides of a coastal Maine motel her family once owned. She’d researched the commercial cost of scanning, and before bi...

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Hamish Gill on Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax
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