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19 May, 2025

Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush

By Ibraar Hussain

19 May, 2025

/ Compact Digital, digital camera, Olympus Digital, Olympus XZ-1, /

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26 August, 2020

My Friend Jim – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

This is my friend Jim. Jim was one of those people who understood what it is like to yearn for something big where his talents could go. He was a musician and writer and even wr...

26 August, 2020

5 Frames with a White Slim Angel – Then and Now – By DeeDee Yelverton

By DeeDee Yelverton

I’m not sure how or when I first discovered the plastic White Slim Angel camera – but I think it was around 2009 or 2010. For those not familiar with this gem, it is a plastic p...

25 August, 2020

5 frames with a 360 degree Lens – By Dan Cuny

By Dan Cuny

My interest in anything photographic has spanned for more than 45 years., I've had the opportunity to photography with many different cameras and lenses in those years, from sub...

25 August, 2020

5 frames of St Ives with my Zeiss Ikon Nettar & Ilford FP4 – by Graham Spinks

By Graham Spinks

For the last 25 years I have kept an office in St Ives – not the one by the sea where aggressive gulls rip ice creams indiscriminately from the hands of hyperactive children and...

24 August, 2020

Monkeying Around with Focal Length and Perspective – by Sroyon Mukherjee

By Sroyon

When we zoom in or use a longer focal length, the subject looks bigger... other things being equal, of course. But other things need not be equal. We can, for instance, zoom in ...

24 August, 2020

Film Photography – A Realisation That Cheap Thrills Can Still Be Had!

By Hamish Gill

As with a lot of my articles, the reason I’m writing this is to solidify an idea in my head. That idea is that I have become a bit of a snob, that I’ve lost touch with something...

23 August, 2020

Six of my Best Freebie Cameras – Part2: The Others – By Rock

By Rock

Following on from my previous post regarding the 'sins' of being given cameras for free, when you have too many anyway, here is part 2 featuring three others. If you took notice...

22 August, 2020

My first 3 rolls of home developed film – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

Otherwise known as “third time’s the charm”. I have recently decided to plough on with my goal of developing film at home and here is the story of my first 3 rolls. I have deve...

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Ibraar Hussain on Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush
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Ibraar Hussain on Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush
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