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25 July, 2025

Leica IIIa and 50mm Elmar – The Pleasures and Challenges of a Barnack Leica

By Curtis Heikkinen

25 July, 2025

/ Leica 50mm Elmar, Leica iiia, /

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17 March, 2016

Experiences with 35mm Ilford SFX – by Rob MacKillop

By Rob MacKillop

Ilford SFX is an extended red sensitivity black and white film, which I had used once before through a medium-format camera. I liked it very much, though it proved expensive for...

13 March, 2016

First (digital) colour photos from the MS-optics converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar

By Hamish Gill

A very quick follow up post to todays early post containing my first colour shots from my MS-Optical converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar. After I posted those shots, I was ask...

13 March, 2016

First colour photos from the MS-optics converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar

By Hamish Gill

In the last part of this story I introduced you to my MS-Optical Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar (I really need to find this thing a shorter name). Since then I’ve shot a roll...

12 March, 2016

The Yellow Filter And Why I Love This Community – by Aukje

By Aukje

My first year of shooting film Part 7 (Read Part 6 here) A couple of months ago I wrote a guest post about my first roll of Tri-X. In fact it was my first roll of black and whit...

10 March, 2016

35mm Compact Photographer #17 – Sean Fisher

By Sean Fisher

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? Hey, ...

6 March, 2016

35mm Compact Photographer #18 – Oswaldo Guadarrama

By Oswaldo guadarrama

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? My na...

5 March, 2016

MS-Optics converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar – 35mm Lens conversion – Part 2

By Hamish Gill

In the last part of this story I was deliberating over the choice of converting the Yashica T4's Tessar vs the Nikon L35's Sonnar to M-mount. Whilst I was dead set on the latter...

5 March, 2016

Ricoh FF-8WR – one roll review

By Hamish Gill

The Ricoh FF-8WR is one of a bunch of compact cameras that I didn’t recently get shot of. This might sound like an odd distinction to make, but recently I parted company w...

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