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5 July, 2025

Kentmere and I – Musings on recent film choices

By Paul Quellin

5 July, 2025

/ Kentmere 100, Kentmere Film, /

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4 November, 2024

Rolleiflex SL35 – Why use an unloved camera?

By Nigel Gardner

Why would you use a rather geriatric camera that even when new was a bit of a dead beat and a little unloved? It’s a question I have been asked a few times in the last 4 months ...

3 November, 2024

Becoming an Honorary Newfoundlander

By Dave Powell

If you visit Newfoundland, you will most assuredly get a chance to become an Honorary Newfoundlander. The ceremony can pop up almost anywhere- from the deck of a whale-watch boa...

3 November, 2024

5 Frames with a Canon Canonet QI17 GIII and Fujifilm 400

By Eric

I recently picked up a copy of a Canon Canonet QL17 GIII that showed up at my local camera shop. This is not a new camera to me. I have had and also wrote a KEH review for it in...

Newfoundland Puffins digging a nest hole

2 November, 2024

“The Puffin Inspectors” – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Previously, I described rather special experiences with birds– here, here and here. But this next one was just a bit different. Our 2018 tour of Newfoundland visited a Puf...

2 November, 2024

5 Frames with a Voigtländer Vito B

By Cem Eren

I got my first camera at the age of 6. It was a properly functioning toy camera, (hearsay your honor), love at first sight, and though I did not master photography, I did proper...

1 November, 2024

Young Band Rocks at a Youth Rock Concert

By Julian Tanase

This past weekend I attended a rock concert, in one of the youth theatres around here. The reason of my presence there was twofold: the theatre is run by a good friend of mine, ...

1 November, 2024

Fuji STX-2 – A Love Affair with a Much Hated Camera. Simple Refinement

By Keith Drysdale

This story began in 2012. I was told by a fellow worker one lunch time: “There’s a Nikon film camera for £15 in the Pawn Broker’s window!” I decided to g...

31 October, 2024

The Dancer – A One Shot Story

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

Every so often, if we’re lucky, we’re reminded just how important photography can be in people’s lives. I got lucky the other week when I received a message on Instagram from so...

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