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15 September, 2025

5 Frames to Overcome My Fear of Flying (With Film)

By Gordon Ownby

15 September, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak T-max 100, /

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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

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27 August, 2018

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By anthony.rue

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26 August, 2018

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

By Hamish Gill

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25 August, 2018

5 Frames With A Chinon 35EE – By Nigel Cliff

By Nigel Cliff

I won’t bore you with a life history, suffice to say I have been photographing for 42 years through manual focus, onto autofocus, onto digital with AF everything; and then for t...

24 August, 2018

5 Frames with the Pentax 67 – By Louis Sousa

By LASousa

The Pentax 67 is out of character for 35mmc being big and hardly pocketable. My mirror lockup model was sourced from Jeremy at Japan Camera Hunter. Since obtaining the camera I'...

23 August, 2018

5 Frames with a Nikon F4S and Nikkor 35mm f/2.8 AI and Adox CMS II – By Toni Skokovic

By Toni Skokovic

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22 August, 2018

5 Frames with a Konica Hexar AF – By James Nguyen

By hoangtu1998

My name is James Nguyen and I’m a 20 year old Vietnamese hospitality student, photography hobbyist, studying in Switzerland. I have now sold my Konica Hexar AF, but to be hones...

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