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30 June, 2025

Wanderer Above the Peaks – A One-Shot Story

By Nathan Sherwood

30 June, 2025

/ Portrait Photography, /

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14 October, 2020

5 Frames with the Pentax MG – Provence in Black & White – by Richard Wilford

By Richard Wilford

This Pentax MG was a lockdown purchase. I loaded it with Ilford FP4+ but was only halfway through the film when travel restrictions were (temporarily) lifted and we left for Fra...

14 October, 2020

Experimenting with analog in Iran with an Olympus OM-2n – by Théo Lefort

By Lefort

I shot my first ever roll of film around 2 years ago. Since then, I have shot 5 rolls. I am no more than a beginner in film photography. It all started when I discovered a magic...

13 October, 2020

Rolleiflex 2.8C Review – Making Friends with a Legend – By Phil Calvit

By Phil Calvit

Like many of you, I’m in the habit of scanning Facebook Marketplace for interesting old cameras, with an eye towards a lose list I keep in my head. On this day, I saw one of tho...

12 October, 2020

5 Frames with the Fuji GW690 III – By Phil Steelandt

By Phil Steelandt

I'm learning to find the balance between the freedom and the limitations of a (huge) rangefinder. I have to confess that I am new to rangefinders. I graduated in a film school i...

12 October, 2020

CAMERADACTYL Mongoose – Automation for you 35mm Digitisation Workflow

By Hamish Gill

A couple of weeks ago, the CAMERADACTYL Mongoose was launched on Kickstarter - it is a product designed to automate and speed up the process of digitisation of 35mm film with a ...

11 October, 2020

Found Photos – Lake Lugano, 1945/46 – By Christoph Traugott

By Christoph Traugott

This photos were taken by unknown (as yet) World War II Servicemen and women, likely from Peoria, Illinois going for R&R time at Lake Lugano, Italy. Lake Lugano is a glacial...

10 October, 2020

Rediscovering 28mm – With the Aid of an External Viewfinder – By Tauseef Khan

By Tauseef Khan

I re-discovered the 28mm focal length at 28 years of age, and it all seemed to fall in place. It was a strange sensation — analogous to a child opening a lock for the first tim...

9 October, 2020

16 Frames / A Whole Roll of Ilford HP5+ in a Box Tengor 54 – #FullRollFriday – by Steve Phillips

By Steve Phillips

My son bought me a copy of David Ellwand’s “Retro Photo” for my birthday in June. An excellent book, it is a guided tour of his camera collection, with examples of the pictures ...

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