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15 May, 2025

Financial Support for 35mmc – Part 3

By Hamish Gill

15 May, 2025

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Hi again, all. Sorry this is turning into a bit of a saga! To a degree, I blame you good folks for having so many suggestions as to how to better fund 35mmc. Joking aside, thank you very much! It really is appreciated – more than I could eve...

15 May, 2025

5 frames with an Olympus Trip 35 and Kentmere 100

By Roger

15 May, 2025

/ Kentmere 100, Kentmere Film, Olympus Trip 35, travel photography, /

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The Olympus Trip 35 is a very widely sold and used camera, and having heard good things about it, I was happy when I recently acquired one, and I packed it on a trip to Paris. Normally I would take a camera with a wide angle as well as a standard ...

15 May, 2025

Hipstamatic – Work on your Square compositions with the Coolest iPhone Photo Camera

By Ibraar Hussain

15 May, 2025

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Hipstamatic brings all the joy, quirk, and randomness of analog film photography to your iPhone. Now, bring your friends along and share photos like it’s 2009. The most authentic retro camera experience, with a vintage viewfinder and camera menu s...

Latest Posts

6 June, 2016

3D Printed Yashica T4 lens conversion

By Hamish Gill

If you have a broken Yashica T4 and lack the budget or inclination to send it for an all singing all dancing MS conversion, this strikes me as pretty much the most obvious alter...

5 June, 2016

Konica C35 EFP Review – by Dexter Robinson

By dexter_yo

With nothing to do apart from load and wind the film, focus, press the shutter & possibly add in some flash the Konica C35 EFP is a shining example of a point and shoot and was ...

4 June, 2016

Samsung AF Slim – one roll review

By Hamish Gill

The Samsung AF Slim is quite an uncommon camera. I'd been keeping an eye out for them on ebay for one for quite some time when I eventually bought mine. £14 I paid for it, which...

1 June, 2016

Plaubel Makina 670 Review – How it Killed my love of 35mm – by Ray Larose

By Ray Larose

The Plaubel Makina 670, in my opinion, is the perfect medium format rangefinder camera. Hell, I'll go one step further and say it's the perfect camera. So much so, that it ruine...

1 June, 2016

Leica M2-R review – by Alex Hakimi

By Alex Hakimi

I love 35mm film photography. I also love the 35mm focal length. Strangely enough, I’ve devised a social test involving these two facts. The purpose of this test is to id...

28 May, 2016

Lumu Light Meter review

By Hamish Gill

I've been ogling the Lumu for a few years. I don't know exactly when it came out, but I remember being profoundly impressed by it as a concept. An accessory light meter for the ...

25 May, 2016

Portraits with the Traveling Yashica, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

By AJ

I signed up for the TravelingYashica in June 2014 when I saw the theme on my twitter feed. It was a long wait of 18 months till I got my hands on the camera in Jan 2015. The cam...

23 May, 2016

Zaidmade film case review (and other photography paraphernalia)

By Hamish Gill

Zaid who makes the Zaidmade leather goods contacted me a few months ago asking me if I'd like to try one of his leather film cases. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I ...

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Ibraar Hussain on Hipstamatic – Work on your Square compositions with the Coolest iPhone Photo Camera
It’s just a digital app but you can order the prints using the app It mimics a retro instamatic type…
Ibraar Hussain on Hipstamatic – Work on your Square compositions with the Coolest iPhone Photo Camera
Hehe! I don’t blame you for not wanting an iPhone But in theory an iPod touch or older iPhone (without…
Steve Harper on Hipstamatic – Work on your Square compositions with the Coolest iPhone Photo Camera
Ok I am totally intrigued by this thing and at the same time perplexed. What are the mechanics of it?…

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