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8 November, 2025

A Moto Guzzi Falcone and an Expired Kodak Portra 160 Roll – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

8 November, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Portra 160, /

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21 June, 2020

5 Frames with a Lomo LC-A & Ilford XP2 – Athens in the run up to lock-down – By Mark Harrison

By mark harrison

Before the COVID-19 lock-down in the UK, I spent a week in Athens at the start of March 2020. Unsure of the heightened conditions of the airport security, I opted to take my Lo...

20 June, 2020

Black Lives Matter (through a Petzval 55mm f1.7 MKII Lens) – By Maxime Evangelista

By Maxime Evangelista

This article was motivated by the fact that I believe that, as street photographers, it is our duty to document what is currently happening in the world. When I heard about a BL...

20 June, 2020

A look back at a Return to Photography and Discovering Shooting Legacy Lenses – By Rock

By Rock

When I returned to photography as a hobby after a fifteen year lay-off, my newly acquired camera was digital; it never occurred to me to look into film again. I did lots of rese...

19 June, 2020

34 Frames / A Whole Roll of Ilford HP5, Contax 139Q C/Y & Sonnar 85mm – #FullRollFriday – By Victor Doroshenko

By vzzdor

Two years ago I snapped-up a beaten-up CY Sonnar 85 2.8 for nothing. With a whole box of other junk attached, of course. I got rid of the junk, kept the Sonnar, but never used i...

19 June, 2020

Konica Autoreflex T3 Review – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

Konica was the camera brand name of Konishiroku, one of the earliest photographic companies in Japan. The original company was the first in Japan to produce celluloid-based phot...

18 June, 2020

Film Photography – Enriching my Journey like a Topolino – By Andrea Bevacqua

By Andrea Bevacqua

This morning, on my routine ride with my pushbike, I was thinking over about what is photography for me, and I came out with quite clear picture in my mind. To me is "just" a c...

18 June, 2020

Leica R3 – a Review in a Galaxy Far, Far Away – By Luke Patton

By Luke Patton

For Christmas this past year, my wife bought me a second hand Leica R3 body. These are somewhat common and affordable as they are not the Leica Rangefinder film body the world h...

17 June, 2020

5 Frames Locked-down and loaded – By Dave Whenham

By Dave Whenham

It was mid-morning on Wednesday 18th March that I received the not-unexpected call from my consultant – please stay home for your own safety. It was an instruction dressed up as...

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