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29 September, 2025

One Keeper on the Roll – A One Shot Story

By Stephen Hanka

29 September, 2025

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In May of 2021, when we were still under Covid-19 restrictions I, noticed a ripening cone at about eye level in peeking dawn sunlight on a young evergreen in my yard. I had a Nikon F3HP my wife gave me in 1985 and a roll of Velvia 100 in the refr...

29 September, 2025

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

By Derek Hope

29 September, 2025

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As part of my work at London Camera Exchange, I have always been keen on making the Worcestershire area a photographic hub, an imaging oasis, a haven for those of us in habit of carting our cameras to every BBQ and baby shower. The especially maso...

29 September, 2025

Twin Lens Reflex – My Experiences and Thoughts on this Camera Type – Show and Tell

By Tony Warren

29 September, 2025

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History, design and examples from a number of TLR cameras.

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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...

19 April, 2022

5 Frames with a “Dreamy” Agfa Click II – By Gabriele Bozzi

By Gabriele Bozzi

My first contribution to 35mmc is more a consequence of shoddiness than anything else. On a lazy Saturday, I picked a shiny Agfa Click II in the local thrift store, for the sens...

18 April, 2022

TTArtisan Light Meter Review – The Cheapest of Its Kind – By Frankie Bina

By Frankie Bina

Shoe mounted light meters are slowly evolving, with different brands bringing new smaller and progressively more digital meters to the market. But the “analog” kind, with the sa...

17 April, 2022

The Travelling Canonet – Canonet 28 Roll #1

By Bob Janes

You can read about the Travelling Canonet project here. We have over 50 photographers on 4 continents waiting to take part. Two Canonets are involved, each travelling in a diffe...

16 April, 2022

5 Frames on Expired Kodak Gold 200 at The Carnival in Paris – By Benoit Arlet

By Benoît Arlet

"Are you interested by this?" My neighbor and friend Philippe, hand widely opened, shows me a yellow canister tagged Gold 200. I grab it, a bit confused: "I thought you only sh...

15 April, 2022

ADOX Colour Mission 200 – A new colour negative film – By Phil Harrison

By Phil Harrison

For those of you who haven't heard of this film I'll start with Adox's sales copy: ADOX has released Color Mission - a film with delicately vibrant minty greens, peachy reds, a...

14 April, 2022

5 Analogue Zines You Should Try: Pt1 – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

I love photography books in all their guises - Monograph, Theory, Practical (although perhaps practical books feature less than the others) - but undoubtedly there are many grea...

13 April, 2022

Documenting Beijing’s Modern Architecture – By Yuze Chen

By Yuze Chen

If I had to come up with one thing, I thank Covid-19 for getting me back into film photography (if using my dad’s point-and-shoot to take family photos in the 90s counts as havi...

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