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9 June, 2025

A Year in Pictures – 12 Frames in 12 Months

By Scott Ferguson

9 June, 2025

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19 August, 2017

My First Roll of Film – Guest post by Eve North

By Eve

Do you remember your first roll of film? What camera you shot it with? What feelings you had? Mine wasn't that long ago. A few months ago I asked my father for a film camera. H...

16 August, 2017

Film Photography and Street Photography Workshops, London 25/08/17 – Book your place now

By Hamish Gill

Next Friday the 25th of August 2017 I will be in London running a film photography workshop. Straight after there is a street photography workshop run by Spyros from StreetHunte...

13 August, 2017

Sony A5100 review and (quite personal) setup guide

By Hamish Gill

The Sony A5100 is by many accounts a great little camera. It's very small, it does pretty decent quality video, it has very fast autofocus, a flippy-uppy screen and is compatibl...

5 August, 2017

Finding details in the city: part 1 – International District – Guest post by Carlos Argott

By C. Argott

It’s very easy to be excited about all the new photographic opportunities when one is traveling, but sometimes it becomes much harder to feel inspired in the city where you live.

4 August, 2017

10 Pocket money Classic Cameras – Part 2 – Guest post by Alan Duncan

By Alan Duncan

In my rundown of great but very different cameras you can buy for the cost of a takeaway, we've had some belters. In the first 5 we had a great rangefinder, a 50's classic, 110 ...

31 July, 2017

10 Pocket money Classic Cameras – Part 1 – Guest post by Alan Duncan

By Alan Duncan

Psst!! Wanna buy a classic camera for less than the price of a Takeaway Pizza? Don't panic and run! This isn't some dodgy knock off deal or the garage sale find of the century ...

29 July, 2017

7Artisans 50mm f/1.1 (ongoing) Review

By Hamish Gill

It's fair to say that DJ-Optical 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1 has caused a bit of a stir in the world of rangefinder photographers. The forums are alive with speculation and commentary,...

23 July, 2017

Film Photography; a to road rediscovery – Guest post by Richard Williams

By Richard Williams

...I must have had a latent desire to shoot film again because a few follows later on Instagram and I was hooked! Then not long after that, my wife, ever the avid charity-shopp...

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