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6 November, 2025

Kodak Tri-X 400 or Ilford HP5+ 400 who? when? where?

By Giacomo Cecot

6 November, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford HP5+, Kodak Film, Kodak Tri-X, /

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There were several options for black and white films back in the day. There has been a period a few years ago when suddenly the options were limited and the films sometimes hard to come by, especially for analog-camera-enthusiasts living outside m...

7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF

6 November, 2025

7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF (Z Mount) Review

By Hamish Gill

6 November, 2025

/ 35mm Lens, 7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF, Mirrorless Lens, Wide-Angle Lens, /

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As part of my transition from Sony to Nikon for my primary digital camera I am going to be testing a few more lenses from the budget end of the market. The next one the list is this, the surprisingly interesting 7Artisans 35mm 1.8 AF. I have menti...

Lockdown 2025

6 November, 2025

By Geoff Chaplin

6 November, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, SmartPhone Camera, /

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We got back in the afternoon having spent several days in Osaka – for the centre of Hokkaido it was a reasonable temperature, around 9 degrees (48 in old money), but in the evening the weather was horrible, heavy rain and a storm. The house was co...

Minolta X700 SLR with two lenses and old camera bag.

6 November, 2025

5 Frames at Penmon Point

By Nic

6 November, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford FP4+, Minolta X-700, /

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A trip to north Wales provided a long overdue opportunity for some ‘proper’ photography. To me that means picking up my camera and going out with the sole purpose of creating photographic images, as distinct from a walk or a visit with the camera...

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3 April, 2018

5 Frames with a Leica M6 & Cinestill 800t – by Christoph Ackermann

By Agricola

A few years ago my parents got me my first own camera - a Leica Vlux 114. Before that I just shot my pictures with cameras, which I lent from them. Soon after that I bought a Le...

2 April, 2018

Photographing Punks on Polaroid – by Simon King

By Simon King

I've always thought of myself as an outsider - I think a lot of photographers do. It makes it easier for us to introspect; to look at the world from a perspective a little more ...

1 April, 2018

Functionalist camera design, the Agfa 1035 and the Plaubel Makina 67

By Hamish Gill

The Agfa xx35 series of cameras (in this case the 1035) and the Plaubel Makina 67 are both wonderful examples of what what appears to be German functionalist industrial design. ...

31 March, 2018

The Sunbeams Analogue Photography News – The Photography Show 2018

By The Sunbeams

Hey there all you lovely people, it's us, back again to fill you in on what we've been up to over the last couple of weeks. I'm fuelled by too many Easter eggs and the ill-judge...

31 March, 2018

Canon EOS 33 Review – An overlooked treasure – By Benn Murhaaya

By Benn Murhaaya

Hamish’s recent foray into the world of SLRs with his project involving a Nikon F75 struck a chord with me. While I am big on compact cameras, I have quite a few of them that I’...

29 March, 2018

5 Frames With An Olympus Trip 35 – By Julian Higgs

By julianhiggs

The Olympus Trip 35 is a much vaunted little camera and has many admirers, me included. I feel like I came to the party late on this one. Having shot film pre-digital (there was...

28 March, 2018

Leicaflex Standard Review – by Jason S. Ganz

By Jason Ganz

The word Leica and film often brings up precision, manual operation, best-in-the-world optics, and ideations that shooting a Leica automatically makes one a professional – if no...

27 March, 2018

5 Frames with a Rolleicord IIA – by Tom O’Neill

By Tom O'Neill

At the beginning of this year I found myself in one of Japan's second hand camera shops. Wherein I fell in love with a Rolleicord II. It seemed as if it was meant to be for I ha...

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