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28 December, 2025

Capo Testa, Sardinia – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Patrick Medd

28 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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2025 has been a mixed bag for me, photographically. Looking at my Lightroom catalogue I can see that I have roughly half the number of images for the year compared to 2024 and that number includes scans of most of the negatives I have shot in the ...

oak trees in a wood

28 December, 2025

A Picture in Spring – My Favourite Photo From 2025

By Richard Becker

28 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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13th May 2025, early afternoon. The oak trees had only just fully come into leaf and it was a beautiful day, hot with clear blue skies and a gentle breeze. But none of the photographs I was taking reflected this in any way, the intense green of th...

28 December, 2025

The Haunting of Sheda Jatt of Village Gehal Bala – My favourite Photograph of 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

28 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Portrait Photography, /

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I’ve been away for a while, 3 weeks plus a few days on either side, so probably a month away from the website, apologies to my friends here as I’ve a lot of catching up to do. It was 3 weeks of shooting, having two camera bodies; an Ol...

28 December, 2025

A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography

By Thomas Eland

28 December, 2025

/ Camera Theory, Finding Film Photography, /

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During my pre digital life I was mostly a Pentax fan, using their SL, SP, ES, ME, MX, LX, 67 and 645…all long gone. The last three I bought whilst I was in Hong Kong for a few years and I even carried the 67 and Benbo mk.1 tripod up Mount Ki...

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21 January, 2018

Ricoh GXR Review – By Alex Hakimi

By Alex Hakimi

It’s strange that I should be inspired to write a review about the Ricoh GXR; a digital camera. I made film my primary medium several years ago. In this time I've acquired a sle...

20 January, 2018

7Artisans 35mm f/1.2 Review – my new mini super-sonnar

By Hamish Gill

When I first heard about the 7Artisans 35mm f/1.2 lens, I must admit I was a little bit disappointed that it wasn't a full frame lens. The first images I saw of it looked a litt...

19 January, 2018

The Box Is Back! – The Sunbeams Analogue Photography News – January 19th 2018

By Sunny 16 Podcast

January already seems to be disappearing at an alarming rate but what a start it’s been to 2018! There have been new products, new projects and even a foray into the world of bi...

18 January, 2018

5 Frames with a 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1 – Barnaby Nutt

By Barnaby Nutt

A while back, I wrote a bit about my new 7Artisans, 50mm lens that I'd bought from Hamish and paired with my M6. That first trip out with it involved a wander around Oxford and ...

17 January, 2018

5 (4 underexposed) frames with a Leica M-A and 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1

By Hamish Gill

Ok, I'm cheating, this isn't 5 frames it's 4. But I only took 4, and they make a nice set... These were taken last summer in a bar in Waterloo at a Beers & Cameras meetup with m...

16 January, 2018

Beers & Cameras – Birmingham Meet-up March 24th, 2018 – #BandCBRUM

By Hamish Gill

March 24th 2018 Beers & Cameras is coming to Birmingham I’ve been mulling over bigger meet-up for about 18 months now, but have finally pulled my finger out and decided to g...

16 January, 2018

5 Frames with a 135 adapted Holga – By Lucas H

By Lucas H

I honestly don’t remember when or where I first came across the 35mm Holga adapter. The lime-green spacers had been 3D printed by a friend months previous, quickly relegated to ...

14 January, 2018

Helmut Newton- Pages from the glossies – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

This piece is all about a photography book that I love: “Helmut Newton- Pages from the glossies“ which focuses on his magazine work from 1956 to 1998. It’s a big book, running t...

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Thomas Eland on A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography
Thanks for your extensive and informative reply. Plus of course happy New year to all members
Marco Andrés on A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography
Quite the journey. Excellent introduction to a panoply of « odd » cameras, which are definitely worth exploring. The Adox…
Art Meripol on Keks M-Meter – A Leica-Dedicated Shoe Mount Meter
ordered mine as soon as I heard about it and it works great on my M4P. Seamless. Easy and fast,…

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