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5 April, 2026

Nikon FM2N & Nikkor 16mm – A Fisheye in French Canada

By Leo Lukens

5 April, 2026

/ Nikon 16mm fisheye, Nikon FM2n, travel photography, /

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16 May, 2022

Minolta Hi-Matic E – Minolta’s ‘Difficult’ Second Electro Camera – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

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...

15 May, 2022

1 Sunset, 2 Mediums, 4 Cameras – By Charlie Bierwirth

By Charlie Bierwirth

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...

14 May, 2022

5 frames with the Canon L3, Jupiter 12 lens, and Shanghai Light 400 in London

By Molly Kate

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...

13 May, 2022

Canon Epoca – A Review of A Twice Owned Camera – by Phil Harrison

By Phil Harrison

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 ...

12 May, 2022

Low Cost DIY Darkroom Masking Frame for Analogue Printing – By Robert Willox

By Robert Willox

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. ...

11 May, 2022

The Solarcan PUCK! A Video Conversation with Sam Cornwell

By Hamish Gill

A week or so ago I interviewed Sam Cornwell from Solarcan about his current (already very successful) Kickstarter raising money for PUCK!

10 May, 2022

Shooting Gigs – Pushing The Boundaries of B&W Film – By Tom Schulte

By Tom Schulte

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

By Nandakumar N

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 ...

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