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18 July, 2025

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time

By Martin H

18 July, 2025

/ Finding Film Photography, Reflecting on the past, /

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11 July, 2025

Leica Elmarit-M 90mm f2.8 and a History Photo Walk

By Geoff Chaplin

The featured image shows the lens on my Sony A7Riii body. Technical details about the lens can be found here, and Hamish Gill wrote about it here. The lens followed the Tele-Elm...

10 July, 2025

5 (plus one or three) Frames of Raglan Castle – A Return to Velvia with the Best Camera Ever Made.

By Richard Becker

The ruins of Raglan Castle dominate the landscape mid-way between Abergavenny and Monmouth in South Wales and will be familiar to anyone travelling the A40 between the towns. Th...

10 July, 2025

Tokyo Street Photography – A One Shot Story

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

First, an admission: I don’t get the term “street photography.” I’ve always assumed that’s what we did when we just called it photography. But I realize this is probably a gene...

9 July, 2025

One roll of film, two cameras

By Roger

Like my last post this story begins with a purchase at a flea fair. I already had one Zeiss nettar, but was tempted by seeing what seemed a more modern one that took 6×6 pi...

9 July, 2025

Konica Autorex – Shooting full and half frames on the same roll of film

By Stuart Jenkins

Here we have the Konica Autorex; the only 35mm SLR that can switch mid-roll between full-frame and half-frame. It’s quite rare (only a handful in the UK) and I was able to...

8 July, 2025

Introducing Analog Photography Assistant – a full featured film photographers app

By Logan Mortimer

The Fuji GW690iii was my first camera that had no electronics. It has produced some of my favourite photographs, but fundamentally changed the way I meter scenes for light. Give...

8 July, 2025

VE Day – Victory in Europe Day with a Balda CA 35 and Polaroid High Definition 200

By Ibraar Hussain

8th May is when this day is celebrated in many countries, Britain especially rejoices for Peace in Our Time. Alas, there’s no peace, but war, war and more war everywhere. ...

7 July, 2025

Rectaflex 1000 – A Review of a (very) Early Pentaprism VF SLR

By Jim Palmer

After I finally retired, my wife and I moved from the hectic, congested, expensive, etc. Washington D.C. area to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. It’s so much calmer, quiet, f...

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David Hume on 10 Frames – A Whole Pack of Polaroid SX70 – Venice 1995 #FullRollFriday by David Hume
Cheers Ibraar, yes, I'm very glad to have these things digitised, which of course was not a thing back in…
Geoff Chaplin on Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time
I need to go to photography school after seeing many of those images. Interesting read, albeit depressing - where did…
David Hume on 10 Frames – A Whole Pack of Polaroid SX70 – Venice 1995 #FullRollFriday by David Hume
Cheers Gary - great questions. The colours were very good, unchanged as far as my memory goes. (The yellow one…

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