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11 November, 2025

A Portrait on Velvia 50

By David Hume

11 November, 2025

/ Fuji Velvia 50, Fujifilm film, Portrait Photography, /

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10 September, 2016

Contax TVS Review – The ‘Executive’ Compact Zoom – By Eddy

By Eddy

The Contax TVS is a fancy compact zoom camera from the mid nineties. Its body is made out of Titanium, it has a really nice Zeiss Vario-Sonar zoom lens and a good range of sensi...

8 September, 2016

How to: 28mm & finder for your Leica on a pensioner’s budget – by Geoff Radnor

By Geoff

My first Leica was an M2 in 1959 it came with a 5cm 2.8 Elmar to which were added over time a 9cm and a 13.5cm. I never did get a wide angle 3.5cm, but what a nice viewfinder th...

4 September, 2016

35mm Compact Camera Photographer #21 – Luis Diaz

By Sunkenrat

I put down my medium format cameras and large 35mm SLR's, and picked up a single lensed, single range compact point and shoot. With minimalistic in features and options, it was ...

2 September, 2016

Diversity and the Traveling Yashica in Dubai, UAE

By Walaa Alshaer

I was lucky to have the Traveling Yashica for 2 days. I have been always a fan of film cameras and film effects, although I do own a very old manual film Yashica, but I never g...

29 August, 2016

Contact (Tango) Sheet – The photo and camera that won a Leica M4 – By Julián Péter

By Julián Péter

What a competition! 373 amazing photographs, the quality was very high and in the end it was a neck and neck race. Hamish asked me to do this AL (Anno Leica) post to show the pr...

27 August, 2016

Hasselblad Xpan with a Nikon 35mm PC shift lens – FAQ

By Hamish Gill

A week or so ago I shot a quick test roll through the Hasselblad Xpan II with a Nikon 35mm PC lens attached to the front of it. I had a lot of questions about that set up, so I ...

25 August, 2016

Kodak Ektar 100 Vs Portra 400 In Greece – By Aukje

By Aukje

After shooting 13 rolls of Kodak Portra 400 I thought it was time to give Ektar a try, as was suggested by some people who read my previous posts. A couple of weeks ago I loaded...

22 August, 2016

Leica M8 Review – A simple, digital, rangefinder

By Hamish Gill

Released a decade ago, the M8 was Leica's first digital rangefinder. By the standards of most people, this thing is now old technology; it's long in the tooth, many times supers...

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