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18 July, 2025

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time

By Martin H

18 July, 2025

/ Finding Film Photography, Reflecting on the past, /

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29 July, 2013

35mm Compact Photographer #3 – Julián Péter – Hi-skill with a Hi-Matic!

By Julián Péter

First, a bit of background? As much or as little as you are comfortable sharing… Name, Where you are from, what you do, What else in life do you enjoy? that sort of thing? Hello...

23 July, 2013

Water fight fun with a Canon Sureshot A1

By Hamish Gill

Not so long ago a pal from over on RPF wrote a review on this camera. I pretty much decided there and then that I wanted a waterproof camera and if I could find one, one of thes...

22 July, 2013

35mm Compact Photographer #2 – Dominik Mrzyk – Student Shooter

By Dominik Mrzyk

First, a bit of background? As much or as little as you are comfortable sharing… Name, Where you are from, what you do, What else in life do you enjoy? that sort of thing? Hello...

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...

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Gary Smith on Harman Phoenix II – My first roll and some brief thoughts on the development of this new film
I plan to shoot the lot. I wonder what shipping would cost?
Gary Smith on 10 Frames – A Whole Pack of Polaroid SX70 – Venice 1995 #FullRollFriday by David Hume
From a color standpoint, how do these 30-year-old examples hold up to your memory of the original colors as they…
Gary Smith on Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time
Quite a few memories for you in your article Martin. I usually look at your blog site at least twice…

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