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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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23 March, 2020

CoronaVirus isn’t going to stop me Blogging about Cameras and Photography

By Hamish Gill

I’ve spent this last week or so doing all sorts of alien things. We’ve had to make arrangements to temporarily close The Kiln, the coworking space I run, all of my staff at F8 (...

22 March, 2020

5 Frames With Eastman 5222 at EI1600 – By Hern Tan

By Hern Tan

You already know the drill: Bulk loaded film in canisters of wildly varying DX codes, lack of markings anywhere on the back plate indicating the film stock born out of pure hubr...

21 March, 2020

Conversion to Film: The Expected and Unexpected – by Anton Yakovlev

By Anton Yakovlev

A couple of words about myself first. I’m a hobbyist photographer with about a decade of experience. I come from the “digital generation”. My first camera was a Panasonic FZ-som...

20 March, 2020

Olympus 35RC – A Travelling Review – By Andy Larner

By Andy Larner

The invite dropped into my whatsapp in early February last year. Stag-do in Budapest! Long weekend! Now, I’m a habitual traveler, I love traveling and the majority of my photogr...

19 March, 2020

Enjoying and Learning in the Darkroom – by Michael Scott

By scottfotodotcom

As a film photographer, I’m in the fortunate position of being able to print my own work, both colour and black and white, in a darkroom. For some few years now I’ve been rentin...

18 March, 2020

A Heavy Visit – An Acount of Shooting an Emotive Subject – By Alex Kreisman

By Alex Kreisman

And the story goes like this …A foggy Saturday morning of November we arrived by car. Not too late, not too early. As soon as arrived we were to be separated into groups and put...

17 March, 2020

Photographing Buildings and Places in Hannover – by Christian Schroeder

By Christian Schroeder

Sometime around the year 2012, I started documenting the buildings and places in my home town, Hannover (Germany). This article deals with the way I came from there to here. I a...

16 March, 2020

Kolari Pocket & IRChrome Filter Review – Digital Aerochrome in a Tiny Package!

By Hamish Gill

I suspect a large percentage of us film photographers will have heard of Kodak Aerochrome. It’s that film that renders foliage red/purple, costs an absolute fortune and is rare ...

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Prabhat Chandra on Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush
Lovely pictures, Ibraar. You have captured the essence of the landscapes and the lively curiosity of the camera shy people…
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Nice writeup! I've used this app for many years and purchased waaaaay too many film packs. But I still love…
John Bennett on Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush
Fantastic portraits, and proof that: A) Megapixels don’t matter. B) It’s the photographer, NOT the camera.

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