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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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4 December, 2024

Fujica 35-SE – A review of an interesting if tatty camera

By Tony Warren

My interest in mid 20th century efforts to automate photography led to the purchase of a Fujica 35-SE. When I bought my first dSLR, a Fuji S2 Pro, Fuji were better known for the...

3 December, 2024

Can You Get Mojo From TLR Cameras?

By Jeffery Luhn

Tony Warren’s recent post entitled, “My TLRs Over the Years”, got me thinking about the who, what, where, and how my experiences with TLR’s made phot...

3 December, 2024

New Horizons and Moving Back in Time

By Philip

Having shot purely digital for well over a decade, I find myself more and more drawn to the analog process and aesthetic of the film medium. This hankering for a more organic an...

2 December, 2024

Polaroid Punk – a One Shot Story

By Matthew Bigwood

This picture came about following my admiration of the renowned photojournalist David Burnett, whose career has covered seven decades and included coverage of the Vietnam War an...

2 December, 2024

Kentfaith Variable ND (ND2-400) & 1/4 Black Mist and a growing love for lens filters

By Hamish Gill

I am a fan of mist filters, and have used ND (neutral density) filters a fair few times before. I’ve even crossed paths with variable ND filters. I’ve never come a...

1 December, 2024

Not quite a TLR challenge response – A one-shot story

By Tony Warren

One shot story.

1 December, 2024

DSLR Scanning on a Budget: Unlock Stunning Results with an Affordable Enlarger Lens

By Markus Hofstätter

You can fall in quite a huge rabbit hole if you read about scanning negatives with your mirrorless or DSLR camera, lots of people recommend different lenses. You easily can spen...

30 November, 2024

Shooting in a cemetery leads to uncovering a local tragedy (and then another). Dangerous currents.

By Keith Drysdale

In 2022 I visited the churchyard at St Mary the Virgin at Horton near Blyth to shoot one of my favourite subjects – memorial stones. There has been a church on this site s...

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Ibraar Hussain on Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush
Thanks again Gary There are at least two more similar series coming up One with a Lumix GX7 in a…
Ibraar Hussain on Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush
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