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1 April, 2026

Never meet your heros – Misadventures in Camera Repair Land

By Bob Janes

1 April, 2026

/ Camera Repair, Minolta SRT 303, /

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7 November, 2021

Searching for 1950s Motion Picture Aesthetics in my Own Photos – By Ian Do Carmo

By Ian Do Carmo

I often get my inspiration from motion pictures, and as a collector of film stocks I look for mundane things to shoot while experimenting with various films that I can get a hol...

6 November, 2021

5 Frames with Voigtländer Bessa R3a and Portra 800 – Tommaso Avati

By Tommaso Avati

My name is Tommaso Avati and I am a fiction writer (novels and screenplays sometimes). Writing is my life, I really enjoy it and there is nothing comparable to the pleasure that...

5 November, 2021

Photographer or Photographic Artist? – by Billy Sanford

By Billy Sanford

This article began as a post in the Photography Books and Theory group on Facebook. It is a friendly and informative group and as the name implies, it is a place to discuss book...

4 November, 2021

NEWS: LomoChrome Turquoise is Back!

By Hamish Gill

Yesterday, Lomography announced that LomoChrome Turquoise is coming back! They have opened up 15% discounted preorders on their website here. I actually hadn't realised it wasn...

4 November, 2021

Olympus Pen EE-3 – Shooting Film in Barcelona – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

This is the latest camera that my neighbor Alvar has lent me and since there are countless articles on the net about it, even on 35mmc, I have decided to take some photos and ma...

3 November, 2021

What do you do with all the photographs you take? Who actually sees them? – By Nik Stanbridge

By Nik Stanbridge

In the olden days, before domestic computers, sharing images shot on neg film was all about physical artefacts. In order to share your work you had to produce something tangible...

2 November, 2021

Nikkormat EL Mini Review – A Trip To The Seaside with Fuji Provia 100F – By Clive Williams

By Clive Williams

I’ve had some fun since reviving my silver-based photography in 2018. But I’ve become quite disillusioned with it in the latter phases of the Covid apocalypse. In particular, ...

1 November, 2021

Canonet Review – 43 Years in Preparation – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

In a way, this Canonet review has been 43 years in preparation. I was a teenager when I got into photography. I used to borrow my father’s various rangefinder cameras: fixed len...

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Walter Reumkens on Minolta Dynax 9 and 7 – A Comparison
An excellent, in-depth piece of work, Bob. I couldn’t produce anything like it. Apart from a technical interest in the…
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