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25 May, 2025

Photographing the Acropolis with an Antique Roll of Film

By David Pauley

25 May, 2025

/ Expired Film, Orwo Film, Orwo NP22, /

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20 May, 2016

Halina AF700 Review – How it saved me from Creative Block – By Miriam Woodburn

By Miriam Woodburn

The chances are that if you’re a creative individual you’d have come across it at least once. You feel like your work isn’t good enough, you know you need to do more work in ord...

19 May, 2016

Win a Leica M4

By Hamish Gill

3 years ago today I launched this blog. I never had any expectations, I just felt like writing about my experiences with cameras I liked shooting with. After a little bit of tim...

18 May, 2016

Six by Four – my experience of creating a Photo Book – By Frank Lehnen

By Frank Lehnen

I just did something I intended to do for some time now…. I made a Photo Book, or rather a Photo Booklet. I’d like to submit it to your critical eyes, but also ...

16 May, 2016

Olympus PEN EE-2 Review – Fixed Perfection? – by Alan Duncan

By Alan Duncan

Olympus has always been one of the trend setters for compact cameras from their Olympus 35 rangefinder, the Trip 35, the XAs and right up to µ[mju:] series. But m...

15 May, 2016

Lomography 50mm f/1.5 Zenit New Jupiter 3+ Art lens Review

By Hamish Gill

A few months ago - the very same week the Lomography New Jupiter 3+ was announced - I had an email from a chap at Lomography in New York. He'd spotted I was having a lens from a...

13 May, 2016

Ilford HP5 vs Kodak Tri-X – Finding My Go-To Black & White Film – by Aukje

By Aukje

My first year of shooting film Part 10 (Read Part 9 here) Do you know how one photo taken with a specific lens can win you over, although you know that there is more to it ...

11 May, 2016

35mm Compact Photographer #19 – Jimmy Yang

By Jimmy Yang

First, a bit of background? As much or as little as you are comfortable sharing… Name, Where you are from, what you do, What else in life do you enjoy? that sort of thing...

11 May, 2016

Finding the value in home scanning – Guest post by Frank Lehnen

By Frank Lehnen

Ahem, Ok, I guess I have some ‘splaining to do here. Some time ago I wrote this post for 35mmc, in praise for expensive outsourcing of film development and scann...

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Jeffery Luhn on The Aesthetic Qualities of BW Film Images – by Marco Dughera
Marco, Ansel said, "The negative is the score and the print is the performance." I heard him say this in…
Martin on Photographing the Acropolis with an Antique Roll of Film
Fine read, thanks a lot. The shredding noise was most likely Zeus reminding that he's still in charge there ;-)
Roger on Paterson, old and new – A Tale of Two Tanks
This thread resonates with me, as I have used several developing tanks over the years. First a Paterson one, intermediate…

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