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14 November, 2025

The Rise And Fall of Pizzeria Liceo – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

14 November, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Portra 160, pentax z-20, /

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For decades, it was established in 1963, not only the students of the Liceo Classico on the other side of Via Venezia, but almost all the inhabitants of my hometown, paid a visit to Pizzeria Liceo (aptly named after the aforementioned school). Tru...

Stone igloo

14 November, 2025

A Stone Igloo – My favourite photo of 2025

By Mark Ellerby

14 November, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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This photo was taken whilst on a hike with my local walking group, the Sheffield 40s/50s ramblers group, with my Rollei 35T that often comes with me on daywalks, because of its compact size and quality Tessar lens, and which I wrote about on this ...

14 November, 2025

Olympus Pen F 40mm G.Zuiko f1.4 and Rollei Retro 400s – My experience with this iconic camera

By Ibraar Hussain

14 November, 2025

/ Half Frame Camera, Olympus Pen F, Olympus SLR, SLR Camera, /

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This post was one of my first few on 35mmc, that’s after lurking for a few years before I plucked up enough courage and audacity to get some of my photos and writing published. I have to thank Hamish for allowing me to express myself here. I...

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27 November, 2022

5 frames with Canon EOS 30 and Kodak Ektar 100 – By Paolo Lucente

By Paolo Lucente

In July 2021 with some friends, we went to the sunny city of Cadiz in Spain for a wedding of ours. I had just started shooting film photography some months earlier with the old ...

26 November, 2022

5 frames with my Pentax MX and Ilford Delta 3200 on a Bright Summer Day – By Armando Caballero

By Armando Caballero

I know that you normally would not expect to find the words “Ilford Delta 3200” and “bright summer day” in the same sentence. But let me tell you the story of how I ended up sho...

25 November, 2022

pixl-latr Review – A Film Scanning Gadget for Someone Who Hates Gadgets – By Nick Davis

By Nick Davis

Let me preface this pixl-latr review with a confession that I am spectacularly impatient. I’m not restless, and I’m not in an unreasonable hurry. Those things are sort of incomp...

24 November, 2022

Shooting Mum’s Agfa Silette with a Roll of Kodak Gold 200 – By Stuart Watchorn

By Stuart Watchorn

1964. My parents had just sold their service station / taxi / towtruck / mechanical repair business. They decided to take a 12 month sabbatical and dad had bought a caravan shel...

22 November, 2022

5 Frames with a Leica M3 in the Singapore Botanic Gardens – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

I've studied and worked in several countries, but my current workplace, at least in terms of location, is definitely my favourite. It's located inside the Singapore Botanic Gard...

21 November, 2022

Techart Pro LM-EA9 Auto Focus Lens Adapter Review

By Hamish Gill

I love my manual focus Leica mount lenses, they are increasingly the main reason why I keep my m-mount digital cameras. With that said, sometimes I go through phases where my ap...

20 November, 2022

5 frames with Olympus XA2 and Ilford XP2 Super (and the wistful nostalgia of goodbyes) – By Mel

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I was introduced to analog photography last Christmas with a Polaroid One Step camera and a handwritten note saying something like “this is another attempt to see the world thro...

19 November, 2022

5 Frames with Rollei RPX400 – pushed one stop at SynthFest, Sheffield – By Ted Ayre

By Ted Ayre

My old school mate Will and I love music, and when we meet up it’s usually first on the topic of conversation. We both play a variety of instruments, but synthesisers are a uniq...

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Peter, good on you for wishing to bring a bit of order to a topic that can easily spiral into…
Bill Brown on The Rise And Fall of Pizzeria Liceo – One Shot Story
A Mexican restaurant that my wife and I had enjoyed for thirty years suffered the same fate. We had become…
Bill Brown on Editing, manipulating, lying, fake – towards an agreement of the meaning of words
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