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Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL camera from the front surrounded by 35mm film canisters

6 August, 2025

5 Frames with the Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL and Lomography Orca

By Benjamin Chan

6 August, 2025

/ Lomography Film, lomography orca 100, Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL, /

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Although I don’t shoot 110 film much, maybe 1-2 rolls a year, I do enjoy it. But it’s a hassle and options for film stocks are limited with Lomography being the only manufacturer of fresh film. Moreover, I’ve given up shooting 110 colo...

6 August, 2025

One Shot Story – What Souvenirs Say About Rome (and Your Attitude Toward Life)

By Andrea Monti

6 August, 2025

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Rome’s souvenir shops are full of busts, plaques and other artefacts mixing the sacre and the profane —and sometimes even things that have nothing to do with the Eternal City. This make it challenging for a tourist to actually understand wha...

Chroma Six:9 camera and Rodenstock 70mm

6 August, 2025

Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6 – Adapting a digital medium format lens to film

By Simon Foale

6 August, 2025

/ 70mm lens, Lens Adapting & Modification, Medium Format Lens, Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6, /

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A few years ago the managers of the university I work for decided that the Creative Arts department, which taught a number of photography subjects, was insufficiently profitable and they disestablished it. The lecturers were sacked and the subject...

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25 February, 2017

Noritsu LS-1100 – First Black & White Scans

By Hamish Gill

Sometime late spring last year I bought myself a Noritsu LS-1100 scanner. For one reason and another, and another, and a few more, I've had a bit of a mare getting it working, b...

24 February, 2017

Avenon 21mm f/2.8 super-wide lens mini-review

By Hamish Gill

I think of my mate James as slightly eccentric in his choices when it comes to camera equipment. A good example of this eccentricity is the work that he had done to a Leica M3 a...

22 February, 2017

Adjusting the rangefinder of the Fed4 – Guest post by Howard hurd

By HowardH

A fairly common issue on online forums with the Fed rangefinders seems to be rangefinder accuracy. When I first bought my Fed4, the rangefinder patch did not align accurately ei...

20 February, 2017

Fed4 & Industar И-61 lens review – Back in the USSR – by Howard Hurd

By HowardH

Early experiences with Soviet cameras left a lasting impression. I have always wondered what I would think if I used these cameras again today, after more years of experience in...

19 February, 2017

Zeiss 50mm 1.5 Sonnar (Separated Optics) – Finding my perfect classic Sonnar – PT2

By Hamish Gill

Out of the selection of lenses I mentioned in the first part of this journey, my wild card (completely screwed) Carl Zeiss 50mm f/1.5 definitely makes for the most logical place...

18 February, 2017

My First Experience of Film – by Ross Gibson

By Ross Gibson

My name is Ross and I'm 14 years old. I first met Hamish at my mum and step-dad's wedding, he was the photographer along with his friend James. A while after the day I got in to...

11 February, 2017

Hasselblad XPan – by Jef Price

By JefPrice

I suppose that the Hasselblad X-Pan (or Fuji TX1 as it was for the Japanese market) is pressing it when it comes to the qualification of compact, but its bold design and concept...

10 February, 2017

An insight into my Post Process of colour images shot with the Leica M9 in low light

By Hamish Gill

Almost every time I post some photos taken with my Leica M9 I have people asking me "is this straight out of camera", or "what post process have you done to these" etc. This see...

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