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16 July, 2025

Potty Pareidolia – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

16 July, 2025

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Doesn’t every photographer hope to find an undiscovered niche? Something still un-tapped? I may have just: In what I dub “Potty Pareidolia”! Specifically, clean toilet paper that forms a likeness of something else when tossed in the bowl. Sort of ...

16 July, 2025

Harman Phoenix II – My first roll and some brief thoughts on the development of this new film

By Hamish Gill

16 July, 2025

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Harman have just announced the release of their second colour film, Phoenix II. As per the last few releases out of the factories in Mobberly, I have been lucky enough to have received a few rolls to shoot and write about in the run up to the offi...

16 July, 2025

A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 3

By Scott Ferguson

16 July, 2025

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In Part 1 of this series, I was exploring the different black & white stocks I had in my Lightroom Library, looking at things I had already shot to try to see the impact that a film stock has on the quality of the photos. In Part 2 I was clea...

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22 July, 2016

35mm Compact Photographer #20 – Michael Rennie

By Michael Rennie

I'm Michael Rennie, I live in Wormit, Fife, Scotland, I'm father to two awesome kids; Lana and Luke and married to my best friend Kate. I'm a mechatronics engineer by day but at...

20 July, 2016

Leica M4 Competition Entries

By Hamish Gill

The Leica M4 competition is now closed. Below you can see a list of all of the entires that have so far qualified. I had a total of 373 entires, of which 357 made it through my ...

17 July, 2016

Specialist Film Camera Repair & Modification Companies

By Hamish Gill

A few weeks ago I was contacted by a chap called Matt who suggested it might be nice to create a list of reputable camera repairers. Specifically film camera repairers. Rather...

16 July, 2016

Leica M4 Review

By Hamish Gill

The Leica M4 in many people's eyes is the last of the classic Leica rangefinder cameras. In fact, if you spend any time reading around forums and websites looking for opinion on...

12 July, 2016

Lomo LC-A – 7 Alternatives to the Classic Lomo – by Alan Duncan

By Alan Duncan

The Lomo LC-A has become the iconic 'marmite' camera of our times. Whether you love or hate this Soviet era zone focus compact and what it has come to stand for (or not) - there...

10 July, 2016

An afternoon and evening at Stroud Brewery

By Hamish Gill

A couple of weeks ago I paid a visit to Stroud Brewery. Greg, the chap who owns the place, asked us if we could come along and capture some of the atmosphere of the average Frid...

9 July, 2016

Miranda A-X – Attack of the Clone – Guest Review by Ken Hindle-May

By Ken Hindle-May

All I know is, if you happen to see a Miranda A-X at a car boot sale for a few quid then it's probably worth a punt. You might get the fun 80s point & shoot the AF810 didn't...

7 July, 2016

Olympus XA Review – Mighty Micro Machine – by Michael Rennie

By Michael Rennie

The Olympus XA, what can I say about this legendary little camera that hasn’t been said before? The XA is like a pebble that just sits perfectly in your hand, it just feels righ...

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Leon Winnert on Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax
Response to Scotts comment "but I'm not sure I'd buy anything made between 1933-1945 -- although I think I may…
thorsten on A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 3
They sell film made by a German manufacturer... coinciding with the 100 years celebrations ;)) the interesting difference of the…
thorsten on Potty Pareidolia – One-Shot Story
5 frames, definitely… with an added Rorschach like interpretation game ;))

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