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29 September, 2025

EVENT: The LCE Worcester Film Photography Collective – 25th October 2025

By Derek Hope

29 September, 2025

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27 April, 2022

Fun With C-Mount Lenses on Mirrorless Cameras – By Frankie Bina

By Frankie Bina

Some people get the one amazing lens and spend years learning how to use it to its maximum potential. Others carefully plan out their lens purchases, making sure they get the be...

26 April, 2022

Overnight Curfew at Lviv Train Station, Ukraine – by Simon King

By Simon King

The writing and photographs here were written and photographed shortly after my arrival in Lviv, just before midnight which is during the imposed citywide curfew. Shared here is...

25 April, 2022

M-Mount Lens Conversions Now Available from Omnar Lenses and Skyllaney Opto-Mechanics

By Hamish Gill

Omnar Lenses and Skyllaney Opto-Mechanics are offering a new one-off, high-quality service converting non-rangefinder lenses to rangefinder coupled M-Mount lenses. The conversio...

25 April, 2022

Zeiss Ikon Ikonta – Lost and Found, a 70 Year History – By Conor O’Brien

By Conor O'Brien

My Dad was always a keen photographer. When he bought his Zeiss Ikon Ikonta in the early 1950s, it would have been a substantial outlay for him as a civil servant. While he didn...

23 April, 2022

5 Frames with the Sigma DP2 Quattro in North Merchiston Cemetery

By Anonymised

For more than twenty years from 1989 I lived in Edinburgh, and I still have friends there. Like many cities there are a significant number of Victorian cemeteries, gradually fa...

22 April, 2022

Kodak Retina 118 – More Than a Camera – By Lisa Murphy

By Lisa Murphy

As a professional archivist, understanding the context and provenance of archival material is hugely important. When I look at my camera collecting, I have applied a similar cri...

21 April, 2022

5 Frames of Adox Color Mission with a Zeiss 85 1.4 on a Nikon F2 – By Flo

By Flo

There are plenty of reasons to shoot film. If you are one who swears by the choice of film stocks, there is now one more reason for film. Adox Color Mission probably does not ne...

20 April, 2022

The Case for Patience – Film Photography and Camera Repair – By Ryan Jones

By Ryan Jones

The moment digital photography became accessible to the greater population without significant barriers to entry, film became a luxury good. I do not mean that film photography...

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