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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

/ travel photography, /

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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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31 May, 2018

Yashica Electro 35CC mini review – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

It is hard to resist interesting old cameras, especially if they are low cost. Before a 2017 trip to Nepal, I had been looking for a compact 35mm fixed lens camera. I knew I wou...

30 May, 2018

5 Frames with a Zorki 4K – By Dale Willetts

By Dale Willetts

First I have an admission to make..... I have an addiction. There, I said it. Luckily my addiction is to collecting film cameras, so while it can be as expensive to feed as othe...

29 May, 2018

5 Frames with a Pentax ME – By Oliver Clarke

By Oliver

When traveling for work, it can be hard to find time and reasons to step outside the office and explore the new place you are in. Photography gives you that reason and the Penta...

27 May, 2018

Lensbaby Burnside review – wacky, but potentially wonderful

By Hamish Gill

It’s been years since I’ve played with a Lensbaby lens. But whilst I don’t partake, I do keep up with what they’re up to - I find their slightly nutty lens ideas fascinating. I ...

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...

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Andrea Monti on One Shot Story – What Souvenirs Say About Rome (and Your Attitude Toward Life)
Yes it's him. "The person holding the grapes symbolises Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. Contrary to his Greek counterpart,…
Art Meripol on Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6 – Adapting a digital medium format lens to film
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