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20 June, 2025

Weston Master V – a Review of the Masterful Exposure Meter

By Bob Janes

20 June, 2025

/ Light Meter, Weston Light Meter, Weston Master 5, /

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2 October, 2020

36 frames / My 3rd Whole Roll of HP5 – #FullRollFriday – By Andrea Bevacqua

By Andrea Bevacqua

Thinking about which bulk roll of film to buy, I thought it would been nice to give a film that I had not shoot a lot a go. Yes, the ubiquitous Ilford HP5. The photos here below...

2 October, 2020

Minolta Dynax 5 & Dynax 60 Review – Late Model Budget Gems – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

This is a comparison review of two of Minolta's last film SLRs, separated by only 3 years and aimed, for the most part at the same audience. These were fully featured SLRs with ...

1 October, 2020

Overcoming Creative Block – A Few Tips – By Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

Creative block has been defined as the mind's inability to access its own creativity. So while creative block is a phenomenon of the mind, it is nevertheless real and plagues ma...

30 September, 2020

5 frames with a Nikon F2 on Fujifilm C200 – Phong Nguyen

By Phong Nguyen

I got my Nikon F2 as a gift from a friend of mine who had for a long time been working in Japan - he also took photography as his hobby. Returning to Vietnam he gave up film pho...

30 September, 2020

A 4×5 Portrait with a Toyo 45A, Schneider 210mm f/5.6 & Fuji Acros – By Louis A. Sousa

By LASousa

This is a story of, yes, a spur of the moment 4x5 portrait session from my habitual morning visit to Angelina's Cafe. I have a daily delicious scone baked with care by Chelsea. ...

29 September, 2020

Minolta SRT 101 Review – My Funny Valentine – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

A recent re-associating with the Pentax Spotmatic F had me pondering about some of the other ‘Golden Oldies’ that have been sitting by the skirting board in my living room for a...

28 September, 2020

My Camera Goes Where I’d Rather Not – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

My mother used to say that when she was young she wished she had learned to smoke cigarettes. Because she always liked the smell of tobacco and it looked sophisticated. But she...

28 September, 2020

The Reveni Labs Light Meter Review – (Small) Size is Everything

By Hamish Gill

I backed the Reveni Labs Light Meter pretty much the moment I saw it had gone live - I had a small advantage as I knew it was happening before, but I was still a little disappoi...

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David Hume on Fields filled with ruins, cows, trees and boredom
Despite your disclaimers Julian I very much enjoyed this piece. Of course there are lots of precedents but this was…
Ibraar Hussain on Byzantium – Ancient Constantinople, Modern Istanbul – On Film and Through the eye of my Contax G2
Thank you Andrew I’d love to go visit and snap the places you mentioned Asia Minor and the Eurasian parts…
Tony Warren on Weston Master V – a Review of the Masterful Exposure Meter
Fascinating article Bob. I have a 1950ish Weston II which has just recently decided enough is enough. It is a…

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