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Photo of a couple leaving a Boston train station.

1 August, 2025

Be Careful with Generative AI! (One Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

1 August, 2025

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On July 17, 2025, more than 1,500 anti-Trump “Good Trouble” protests (totaling perhaps 56,000 people) occurred across the U.S. Of these, nearly 100 groups gathered in Massachusetts. And thanks to Generative AI, a seeming impossibility was photogra...

1 August, 2025

The mystery of the car in the attic – a one shot story

By Philip

1 August, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford FP4+, Pentax Spotmatic SP1000, /

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We have all heard of barn finds – abandoned cars, tractors, sometimes even whole classic car-collections that were left to collect dust and grime in barns and garages until someone finds them decades later. But what about attic finds? OK, th...

1 August, 2025

Box Brownie model 2A.

By Tony Warren

1 August, 2025

/ Box Brownie, Box Brownie No. 2 A, Box Camera, /

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The Kodak Box Brownie 2A and adapting it for 120 film.

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21 March, 2018

5 Frames with a Canon AT-1 and a Roll of Redscale – by Toby Van de Velde

By TobyVPhoto

I have had my Canon AT-1 for 30 years this year, my first ‘proper’ camera when I first started to study photography in the 6th Form. I took it to Iceland with a 28mm f2.8 lens, ...

21 March, 2018

Kodak Ektra Mobile Phone Review – By JK Lockwood

By JK LOCKWOOD

When I first read about the Kodak Ektra smartphone, I was intrigued. A phone with an honest-to-goodness camera, designed by Kodak specifically for photographers! However, when i...

19 March, 2018

Shooting Film on Assignment: Can it Compete with Digital? – by Simon King

By Simon King

Shooting film for commissioned work is unfortunately becoming much rarer, despite the efforts of communities like this blog to keep the medium alive. For hobbyists and fine arti...

18 March, 2018

What is a Rangefinder Camera, and is one right for you?

By Hamish Gill

For many photographers rangefinder cameras are some of the most simple, easy to use, unimposing and inconspicuous cameras available. Yet for those who don’t get on with them, th...

17 March, 2018

The Sunbeams Analogue Photography News – Negatives Positive and Self Portraits

By The Sunbeams

Greetings and shutter actuations film fans for another round up of the comings (and goings) at Sunny 16 Towers. March came in like a snow covered Lion, but we dug ourselves out ...

17 March, 2018

Canon 7 Review – by Terry B.

By Terry B

I recall as a 16-year old and having taken up photography about a year earlier, seeing in the photographic press the arrival of the Canon 7 with a lens of the simply unheard of ...

15 March, 2018

5 Frames with an Olympus OM-2N – by Shameer Yaqin

By Shameer Yaqin

I live in Singapore now, and the one thing that really bugs me here is the fact you never really get a clear view of the sky. Everything is built upwards, and it’s so dense that...

14 March, 2018

Forward Motion – On the Road with Saint Etienne – By Mike Monaghan

By Mike Monaghan

My career behind the drums first took me on the road some 7 or so years back and since then I’ve had the good fortune to tour as far and wide as America, Europe, China and Russi...

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