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28 November, 2019
5 Frames Skiing with a Zeiss Ikon Nettar – 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
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
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!
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
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
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...
23 November, 2019
5 Frames With FPP Retrochrome 400 – by Simon King
Slide film is a very difficult concept for me, as my experience of it so far has been the options currently in production - quite a bit more expensive than negative film, and fe...
22 November, 2019
Pentax MV-1 & 40mm f/2.8 Review – A Quest For an Ideal Compact Film SLR – Part 1 – by Ed Lara
My GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) setting was kicked up a notch recently as a result of falling in love with the Olympus XA. The XA is a great camera, but despite my small hand...
