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3 November, 2025

5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too

By Chris Giles

3 November, 2025

/ Kentmere 100, Kentmere Film, Neo Fot A, /

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8 May, 2025

A Journey into Darkness and Light – In Search of a “Go To” Black & White film stock

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Since picking up film still cameras again in June, 2024 I’ve sampled a range of film stocks with wildly varying results, particularly in black & white. My earliest fo...

7 May, 2025

Camera Facade on Miracle Mile, Los Angeles

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Originally the building was a camera shop – The Darkroom – at 5370 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles in the Miracle Mile. While the facade is now boarded up, it had previously been a...

7 May, 2025

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When Zhiyun asked me if I would like to test and write about one of their gimbals, I wasn’t sure if this was the right website for it. It’s true that 35mmc has stead...

6 May, 2025

Uncle Jack’s Last Shots

By Chris Giles

There’s something a bit poignant about looking at some images and realizing they were the last photographs ever taken by a person who had an enthusiasm for photography most of t...

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6 May, 2025

5 Frames from Vintage Medium Format 645 Folder from Japan

By Scott Bassett

My return to photography progressed to the point of curiosity about medium format film and cameras. To satisfy that itch, I purchased from Jeff Gurthrie at Japan Vintage Camera ...

5 May, 2025

Rolleiflex SL35 – A Review of a West German made 35mm SLR

By Ibraar Hussain

This is a review of a camera (or cameras) I once had. As with most of what I had I sold on a knee jerk and regret it ever since. The Rolleiflex SL35 was Franke & Heidecke fi...

4 May, 2025

Spring into Summer – Bluebells and Poppies on Film (Fujifilm NPH400 Fujichrome Velvia 50 Agfachrome RSX II 200)

By Ibraar Hussain

Spring is here at last, after the wash out last year, this 2025 in East Anglia has been quite nice, lovely sunshine though there’s still a chill in the air. I haven’...

3 May, 2025

On Grief and Capturing Memories

By Darren Nelson

Photographs are the closest thing we have to permanent memories. Alternatively, photographs capture a the details of light that can’t change due to age, context or existen...

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Art Meripol on My (Brief) Life as a Documentary Photographer
Truly excellent images, deserving of the attention they've had. As a location shooter I loved my Quadra's. Wore them out!…
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