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30 June, 2025

Wanderer Above the Peaks – A One-Shot Story

By Nathan Sherwood

30 June, 2025

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26 July, 2020

5 Frames in Porto with 1927 Leica 1A & Kodak Tri-X – By Ian Patton

By ian patton

A touch of cabin fever, or perhaps just frustration, I wander through some images of last year and pause to recollect a short break in Porto. It was an opportunity for a cheap f...

25 July, 2020

5 Frames with Outdated Film and an Olympus XA From the Junk Drawer – By Vicky Ballas

By Vicky Ballas

Last summer I cleaned out my son's camera stash from his high school photography days and found an Olympus XA 35mm, along with an outdated roll of Kodak Gold 200. My photography...

24 July, 2020

Evaluating and Choosing Half Frame – By Javier Martínez Delgue

By Javier Martínez Delgue

In 2018, I decided I would once again use film exclusively in my personal projects. When I started with photography, there was only film, I grew up with a photographer father in...

24 July, 2020

NEWS: pixl-latr – for digitising your film with a digital camera – now shipping!

By Hamish Gill

It’s been a fair old while in the making, but pixl-latr is finally shipping! pixl-latr is a tool for aiding in the process digitising (digitally copying) photographic film with...

24 July, 2020

Behind the scenes at the East Lancashire Railway – By Phil Harrison

By Phil Harrison

I help as a guide in running members’ tours around the East Lancashire Railway, a large heritage railway based in Bury, near Manchester. These monthly tours are well attended. O...

23 July, 2020

5 Frames with the Zenit E – Built in the USSR – By Sacha Cloutier

By Sacha Cloutier

The Zenit-E was such a unique experience for me that I wrote this article in a few different formats. In the end, I found my review too technical - and besides, it has already b...

23 July, 2020

5 (7) Frames with a Leica M6, Zeiss 35mm f/2 and Kodak Ultramax 400 – A Double First – By Benoît Felten

By Ben Felten

I'd heard about Leicas even before I started to get serious about photography let alone film photography. But I'd never held one in my hands, and never shot one until a few mont...

22 July, 2020

Limiting and Reflecting on my Digital Output – by Simon King

By Simon King

Before the widespread use of recorded sound, if you were a music aficionado with a favored piece of baroque music you would be lucky if you heard it more than a handful of times...

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