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13 November, 2025

5 Frames with Kodak Portra 800 Pushed to 3200 at Thin Air Exhibition

By Kristian Smith

13 November, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Portra 800, /

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12 June, 2015

Faye and Family – A Family shoot with a difference

By Hamish Gill

These are the last of the first batch of photos I have had back from UK Film Lab. Although they look like conventional family shots, they were actually shot for Faye’s bus...

11 June, 2015

Ma Baker – Behind the scenes at a local bakery

By Hamish Gill

Where appropriate I’ve been subtly introducing a little bit of film photography in to my working day. In this instance the brief was to capture the hustle and bustle of th...

10 June, 2015

First roll from UK Film Lab

By Hamish Gill

Having become a touch disappointed with the inconsistency of colour work I have been getting back from my local D&P, I thought it about time I tried a pro-lab. Having done a...

5 June, 2015

A roll of XP2 through the Contax T3

By Hamish Gill

I've been promising a review of the Contax T3 for some time now, it's coming, but progress has been glacially slow. It's not because I don't use the camera, I do, in fact it's a...

4 June, 2015

Petri 2.8 Color Corrected Super review – by Andrew

By Andrew

I’d never heard of a Petri camera before happening on to this Petri 2.8 Color Corrected Super… Which kind of surprised me, since it’s actually a pretty nice ca...

28 May, 2015

Understanding Lens Terminology – Part 1 – Sharpness, Contrast, 3d Pop and Flare

By Hamish Gill

I’ve spent a lot of time over the years reading online about lenses. I’ve had an interest in lenses with a discernible character for a good while before I started th...

24 May, 2015

Chinon Auto 3001 Multifocus review – by Sigurður J. Haraldsson

By Sigurður Haraldsson

Well this is my Chinon Auto 3001. A fellow film camera enthusiast was selling a part of his film camera collection few months ago on facebook and this camera was there. I liked ...

21 May, 2015

Defining the Perfect Lens

By Hamish Gill

Lenses are like the eyes of our cameras, they don’t process information, they just transmit it to what’s behind. Perfect vision, or perfect eyes are always going to ...

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