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Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL camera from the front surrounded by 35mm film canisters

6 August, 2025

5 Frames with the Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL and Lomography Orca

By Benjamin Chan

6 August, 2025

/ Lomography Film, lomography orca 100, Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL, /

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Although I don’t shoot 110 film much, maybe 1-2 rolls a year, I do enjoy it. But it’s a hassle and options for film stocks are limited with Lomography being the only manufacturer of fresh film. Moreover, I’ve given up shooting 110 colo...

6 August, 2025

One Shot Story – What Souvenirs Say About Rome (and Your Attitude Toward Life)

By Andrea Monti

6 August, 2025

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Rome’s souvenir shops are full of busts, plaques and other artefacts mixing the sacre and the profane —and sometimes even things that have nothing to do with the Eternal City. This make it challenging for a tourist to actually understand wha...

Chroma Six:9 camera and Rodenstock 70mm

6 August, 2025

Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6 – Adapting a digital medium format lens to film

By Simon Foale

6 August, 2025

/ 70mm lens, Lens Adapting & Modification, Medium Format Lens, Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6, /

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A few years ago the managers of the university I work for decided that the Creative Arts department, which taught a number of photography subjects, was insufficiently profitable and they disestablished it. The lecturers were sacked and the subject...

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29 November, 2019

The Alchemy of Film Photography – finding my perfect formula – by Joseph Tan

By josephtwx

You are reeling your film into the developing tank for the first time, but somehow the film got stuck. In complete darkness, it’s difficult to tell what’s wrong. It’...

28 November, 2019

5 Frames with Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 II, Minolta CLE & Leica Summicron-C 40mm f/2 – Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

Neopan Acros 100 had always been one of my favourite film stocks, right up until it was discontinued about two years ago. Acros 100 was contrasty, rendering rich blacks and acce...

28 November, 2019

5 Frames Skiing with a Zeiss Ikon Nettar – Andy Larner

By Andy Larner

I found my perfect Ski camera. It's light, small and great for Landscapes oh by the way it's a medium format 6x6 folding bellows camera from the 1950's. Obviously! The camera ta...

27 November, 2019

Olympus OM-2n – My First SLR Film Camera Review – Ivan Studynskyi

By Ivan Studynskyi

My first experience with film started when my friend let me take some photos with her camera, one of which just struck me (to this day I think it is one of the best photos I hav...

26 November, 2019

Nikon FE Review – Returning to Film with a Fun, Compact, Affordable and Easy SLR – By Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

My father was a documentary photographer and shot a Leica in the 1950s and 60s. He photographed my brother and me all the time when we were growing up in Switzerland, mainly wit...

25 November, 2019

Pentax-M 40mm f/2.8 and Pentax MX – imperfect, but pocketable!

By Hamish Gill

In my recent Pentax MX review I touched on the fact that I’d only really been shooting it with the 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens. This is a lens that seems to divide opinion a little ...

24 November, 2019

5 Frames With the runt of the litter: The Olympus XA1 – Brian Nicholls

By MrSnappy

The Olympus XA1 was ntroduced in 1982. This little gem of a clamshell 35mm compact was the simplest and cheapest of the XA series. It has a fixed-focus f/4 to f/22 x 4 element Z...

23 November, 2019

5 Frames by Candlelight: 0.5-4s Exposures on Ilford HP5+ at EI 800 – by Simon King

By Simon King

We've reached the season of pushing film; early nights begin to encroach, and rain clouds diffuse the day. This time last year I started to play with Delta 3200 for everyday use...

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Dave Powell on Meet Me Mum – One Shot Story
Hi thorsten... Good to hear! And no, I didn't see your great article about timeless photography until now. (I've had…
Gary Smith on 5 Frames with the Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL and Lomography Orca
Those are great shots Benjamin! Were they taken in/around Portland? I'm also failing at scaling back my camera acquisition. Hamish…
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Interesting, Ibraar! And an occult factor that I don't know about????

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