The Hi-Matic E (previously also reviewed by Hamish here) is a Minolta rangefinder with a Rokkor lens. The lens is a 40 mm f/1.7 lens of six elements in four groups. The same spe...
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In the digital world we live in, many people ask "why film?". It's something I asked myself when I first started this great hobby just three years ago. Once I started shooting f...
I didn’t intend to buy another camera. Yet, in a way, this camera found me, like a wand to the witch in certain famous fantasy novels by a certain famous fantasy author.
The ca...
I blame Kosmo Foto! His article on Ten of the quirkiest compact film cameras reminded me I had once owned a Canon Epoca is a fun camera to use and working well for its age with ...
I’m ashamed to say it’s been many years since I developed a film or went near a proper darkroom. I say ashamed because from secondary school onwards photography was my passion.
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A week or so ago I interviewed Sam Cornwell from Solarcan about his current (already very successful) Kickstarter raising money for PUCK!
I might say, pushing the boundaries of film in this case is more like returning to its roots.
When rock ‘n roll and hard bop burst through the famed and now widely regarded as ...
9 May, 2022
The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 2: From Black and White to “Coloured” – By Nandakumar
In my previous piece, I mentioned how colour photography on film has become completely unaffordable for me since 2016. In 2018, having shot most of my remaining colour films, I ...
