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18 July, 2025

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time

By Martin H

18 July, 2025

/ Finding Film Photography, Reflecting on the past, /

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2 September, 2018

Kodak Pro Image 100 – First Roll Review

By Hamish Gill

On the last day of a recent jolly to North Wales with the family, we all went for a little bike ride into the countryside. Knowing I was going to be pulling Norah in a little tr...

1 September, 2018

Canon EOS 300 Review – Not a great camera, but a great camera! – By Malcolm Myers

By Malcolm Myers

“Hi, they’ve got a Canon EOS 300 with a 28-105 lens and they want £5 for it. Do you want it?” Yet another phone call from my wife from the local charity shop (or Charlie shop a...

31 August, 2018

5 frames with a Fujica GW690 and a roll of Cinestill 50D – By Irv Bartlett

By irvb

As a young man in the early 90s I shot mainly with a Nikon F801s and a Seagull 6x6. Always wanting a "proper" medium format camera the nearest I got was picking up a brochure fo...

30 August, 2018

5 Frames with a Nikonos V – by Dirk Marwede

By Dirk Marwede

I picked up a Nikonos V with a 35mm lens for family holidays in the hot summer of 2018 at Garda lake, Italy. Being with kids on holidays, it is always a good idea to have a toug...

29 August, 2018

5 Frames from my First Roll of Kodak Portra 160 – By Stu Myers

By StuMPhoto

The shots in this post are from a roll of Kodak Portra 160 very kindly donated by Kodak Alaris at the Beer and Cameras Birmingham photowalk. Colour film is a bit of an enigma to...

28 August, 2018

5 Frames with a Smena Symbol

By Natalie B.

Despite shooting film for almost nine years now, until recently I have never taken a picture on black and white film. It just wasn't my thing. But when I got two rolls of Ilford...

27 August, 2018

Silver Springs and a Voigtländer Vitomatic I – By Anthony Rue

By anthony.rue

By the time Voigtländer released the Vitomatic I in 1957, Silver Springs had been Florida's premiere tourist destination for almost 100 years. Over 500 million gallons of pristi...

26 August, 2018

Contax TVSii – a review with a few comparisons to the T2

By Hamish Gill

The Contax TVSii is the 2nd of 3 zoom lens cameras in the Contax T range - the TVS came before, and the TVSiii followed. Though quite similar in appearance to the fixed focal le...

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David Hume on 10 Frames – A Whole Pack of Polaroid SX70 – Venice 1995 #FullRollFriday by David Hume
Cheers Ibraar, yes, I'm very glad to have these things digitised, which of course was not a thing back in…
Geoff Chaplin on Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time
I need to go to photography school after seeing many of those images. Interesting read, albeit depressing - where did…
David Hume on 10 Frames – A Whole Pack of Polaroid SX70 – Venice 1995 #FullRollFriday by David Hume
Cheers Gary - great questions. The colours were very good, unchanged as far as my memory goes. (The yellow one…

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