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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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19 April, 2014

Minolta Hi-Matic E Review – A point & poke Rangefinder

By Hamish Gill

I picked up this Minolta Hi-Matic E from a charity shop in town, it had black sticky stuff all over it and thanks to not having any batteries in it was obviously not showing muc...

19 April, 2014

The Traveling Yashica: Julián Péter, Slovakia

By Julián Péter

“Your package has been withheld by the Customs Office of Slovakia.” It is late January and I journey across the city to retrieve the camera. After much waiting and shoutin...

13 April, 2014

Leica M7 review – a near perfect camera (at least for my personal requirements)

By Hamish Gill

It’s been playing on my mind that I so frequently talk about my Leica M7 on here without it really fitting the 35mm compact camera niche subject I originally intended to a...

4 April, 2014

Leatherman Squirt S4 review (for Photographers)

By Hamish Gill

When I first bought the leatherman Squirt S4 a mate of mine (an action film watching, swears at football on the TV and drinks a lot of lager type mate) told me I had bought a “g...

3 April, 2014

The Genius of Barnack, a Leica iiia & how rangefinders found a home on 35mmc

By Hamish Gill

Until a few weeks ago I hadn’t held a Barnack Leica for a good few years, so long in fact that whilst I knew the name “Leica” when I did hold one, I had no rea...

15 March, 2014

Canon Prima 120 Review – My current telephoto lens of choice!

By Hamish Gill

Firstly, this camera isn’t strictly speaking called a “Prima 120” it’s a “Prima Super 120” or a “Sureshot Classic 120” or an R...

9 March, 2014

Three Nights in Paris – And some reflections on my camera choices

By Hamish Gill

A 6 o’clock start isn’t really my cup of tea if I’m honest, especially when it’s going to be 11 hours until we reach the hotel we are staying at just out...

8 March, 2014

How to Recode / Edit the DX barcode on 35mm Film Canisters

By Hamish Gill

The DX barcode on a 35mm roll of film is there, in part, to tell the camera it’s put into what ISO the film is. The majority of cameras from the mid 80’s onwards rea...

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David Pauley on Leica M7 – A Trial Run, and My Decision Not to Keep It
Thank you so much, Gary! Your comment about disposable income, stage of life and the allure of formerly inaccessible brands…
Scott Bassett on Potty Pareidolia – One-Shot Story
I give you an "A" for originality and cleverness. I do fear that you would soon run out of creative…
David Pauley on Leica M7 – A Trial Run, and My Decision Not to Keep It
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