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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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26 May, 2018

Leica M10 – Why I chose mine over the Sony a9 – by Rollin Banderob

By Rollin Banderob

For over a year I had been contemplating plunking down money for a digital body one last time and committing to shooting that camera for 5-10 years. In the film days I had the s...

25 May, 2018

Ricoh FF-90 Super Review – A Landscape Photographer’s New Companion – By Adam Smith

By AdamKendall

A couple of months ago I found myself heading to Wilson’s, a local antiques shop. Overlooking the aqua- marine waters of Lake Michigan, this shop is a popular destination for an...

24 May, 2018

5 Frames with a Zeiss Ikon Contessa – by Thomas Bell

By improbabilitydrive

My name is Thomas Bell. Im a hobbyist photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. I come from a film crew background, so Im used to the mechanics of photography, but until I picked ...

23 May, 2018

Minolta X-700 and 45mm f2 Lens – A love story with an uncertain ending – By Torsten Kathke

By Torsten Kathke

Love stories come in more dramatic varieties. But they're never more true. The 45mm f2 Minolta MD lens was attached to an SR-T 100x I bought in a now-defunct thrift store in Mun...

22 May, 2018

An Instax Project And A Framing Challenge – by Aukje

By Aukje

Two years ago I changed jobs to be able to work closer to home, allowing me to bike to work, and combine commuting with photography. Or at least it gave me more flexibility, wit...

21 May, 2018

The Sunbeams Analogue Photography News – 100 not out!

By The Sunbeams

Hello film fans and welcome back to this, the most centenary of editions of the Sunbeams Analogue Photography News. It’s been a busy few weeks since last we corresponded, ...

21 May, 2018

5 Frames from My First Year as a Photographer [with a Leica M240] – by Simon King

By Simon King

I've shared quite a bit of my work on here before, so I thought I'd offer something a little different with this article. Unlike my pervious "5 Frames With" contributions this o...

20 May, 2018

Adapting lenses, K&F Concept, Simon Forster & Another Podcast Appearance

By Hamish Gill

I have for a long time been interested in using older lenses on both older and newer cameras. My relationship with this photography sub-hobby has not always been ideal (a subjec...

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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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