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Back at the beginning of June this year (2025) while searching the dreaded eBay looking for my next new old camera to add to my growing collection I came across a Zorki 6 in ...
17 October, 2025
Voigtlander VF 135 – A Very Small Review
I must confess, right from the beginning, that for the last 40 years or so, if not even longer, I have been a rangefinder user only; I stopped using SLR cameras, and quite an ex...
16 October, 2025
The Rover returns – A one shot story
As an impressionable thirteen year old, the new Rover P6 3500 S driven by Dave, one of my snorkelling instructors, had me transfixed. The smart Rover ferried a few of us to a lo...
16 October, 2025
Cinevilla in Black and White: Shooting the Nikon FE2, 28mm f/2.8 AIS, and Kodak 400TX in Latvia’s open-air film studio
Photography as an art form has been around since 1826 or 1827. Nicephore Niépce used heliography with a pewter plate coated in bitumen. The development process took around 8 hou...
16 October, 2025
5 Frames with Kentmere 400 along Portugal’s coastline
There was definitely a time where I thought I needed the right camera to make photographs at my highest potential. Piggybacking off my last ‘5 frames’ article, where I suggeste...
15 October, 2025
Adox HR-50 and PanF in PMK Pyro
The launch of Leica Monopan 50 prompted me to buy the Adox HR-50 (the same film) and give it a try. Recommended ASA and developing time in PMK is not given so I decided to expos...
15 October, 2025
Was it to be my last ever click of a shutter?… With a Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7 50mm f2.8 Macro and Rollei Retro 80s.
I took these, all from a roll of Rollei Retro 80s developed in Rodinal, back in 2017. It was a time when I was left with just one SLR; a Minolta Maxxum 7 and one lens – a ...
14 October, 2025
One By Four – A One Shot Story Told by Four Photographers – Part 2
This is my contribution to the “One by Four” series that began with Scott Fergusson’s post four days before this one. You can see Scott’s post here. To r...
