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25 June, 2025

Shooting Sanda (Chinese Kickboxing) Bouts

By Andrea Monti

25 June, 2025

/ Pentax K1 II, Pentax-FA 80-200mm F2.8 ED, Sports Photography, /

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20 July, 2013

35mm Compact Photographer #1 – Stewart Duffy – A Trip 35 man

By Stewart Duffy

Firstly, I would like to thank Stewart for taking part and becoming the first (of hopefully many) “35mm Compact Fanatic”! Stewart, this is everything I could have ho...

17 July, 2013

Ricoh GR1s – Shots from a lost weekend

By Hamish Gill

I would be fibbing if I said my late teens and early 20’s weren’t somewhat filled with the actions of a self confessed hedonist. But life changes these ways, respons...

8 July, 2013

Konica Big Mini Review – Yeah, it’s not bad …

By Hamish Gill

I bought the Konica big mini from a charity shop, I was so excited to have found a camera that I had read such positive reviews about in a charity shop. It was maybe all this ex...

3 July, 2013

A Week in Wales – Part 2

By Hamish Gill

If you missed part 1, it can be found here Day 4, Monday – Ricoh GR1 XP2, Fuji Klasse Portra 400 & Reala and Voigtlander Bessa with Portra 160. Sunshine! Time to make ...

1 July, 2013

A Week in Wales – Part 1

By Hamish Gill

The following is the first part of diary of a week in Wales, I wrote much of this day by day whilst there apart from (obviously) comments on the photos which of course I hadn...

20 June, 2013

A quick fix to a Ricoh GR1s viewfinder surround.

By Hamish Gill

I picked up a Ricoh GR1s for a very reasonable price the other day. I should first say I am very happy to own another Ricoh GR1, you can read my experience of my first one here....

18 June, 2013

Shooting film, XP2, my laziness and other comments on entering the world of analogue photography…

By Hamish Gill

I don’t consider my self particularly qualified to talk about film with any authority. It’s silly really as I do have some experience, just not as much as it feels l...

16 June, 2013

Cleaning the dust out of a Konica Big Mini Lens

By Hamish Gill

I picked up a Konica Big Mini from a charity shop today for the very reasonable price of £5. Pleased! It did have a very unsightly accumulation of dust in the lens, or at least ...

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