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I'm 57 old guy living in small town near Rome. Two years ago I put my EOS 5d on a shelf and started to shoot film again like I did many years ago. The difference now is that I d...
9 February, 2021
Diax L-1 Scale Focus Camera Review – by Simon Foale
This elegant little 35mm fixed-lens compact belonged to my partner’s late father. It was the last model in a relatively little-known and idiosyncratic line of cameras made in Ge...
8 February, 2021
5 frames with the Yashica 200 AF in 1990s Tijuana – By Mirko Karsch
Analog photography is steeped in myth. What is often understood today as the "analog look" (coarse grain, blur and soft edges, pastel colors and a slight warm tone in B&W ph...
8 February, 2021
Doomo Meter D Light Meter Review – for the “Analogue” Experience
I seem to have fallen into a bit of a rabbit hole of shoe-mount light meters. The latest to land with me is the Doomo Meter D - a new LED readout, dial based meter that is *coug...
7 February, 2021
Skyllaney-Restored Sonnars Reunited with Their Old Rangefinder Camera – By Phil Steelandt
Spring 2019. One of my friends (he runs an antique shop in Ghent, Belgium) sends me a picture of a Leica IIIc with a screw mounted Sonnar with the message, "Is this something fo...
6 February, 2021
5 Frames From 2020 – a More Personal Retrospective – by Simon King
As many of you frequent readers may know, the focus of a lot of my work in 2020 was on capturing some of the chaotic fallout from all of the various political, medical, and soci...
5 February, 2021
A Digitisation Rig with a Nod To Mr H Robinson and a Surprise Along The Way – by Ralph Turner
I’m not quite sure what triggered it, maybe a number of small mental prods: my son’s interest in film (he uses his Mum’s old Pentax K1000), being given a roll of Fuji C200 and a...
5 February, 2021
‘Project Cleansweep’ – Beyond the Post-Military Landscape of the United Kingdom – By Dara McGrath
In late 2011 while reading a newspaper in a local pub, I came across an article stating that the Ministry of Defence had launched an investigation into 14 known sites across the...
