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21 October, 2025

My friend Volkmar – Frames of a Life

By thorsten

21 October, 2025

/ Portrait Photography, /

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Some of you may have seen the last Wes Anderson movie, The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio del Toro used a huge fountain pen from Montblanc in it. My friend Volkmar Bendig, an actor himself, had one of those. He got it from a photographer who died in a...

21 October, 2025

5 Frames with a Canon EOS 5000, 50mm f/1.8, and Kepler 800

By Yousuf Sarfaraz

21 October, 2025

/ Canon EOS 5000, Kodak Vision3 500T, Zhenwei Kepler 800, /

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I’ve shot a variety of films before, both color and black and white, from Portra to HP5, but I had never experimented with motion picture stock like Kodak Vision3 500T. I had seen photos online and read about it, but never tested it myself. In Jul...

21 October, 2025

A Few Frames with a Canon P and how I found myself on 35mmc

By Walter Reumkens

21 October, 2025

/ Canon P, Kodak Film, Kodak UltraMax 400, /

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I have been a member of FLICKR for many years and only show my photos there. I joined when I retired and had more time for my hobby. At that time I expected to meet many like-minded people, nice people who knew the basics of photography, wanted to...

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15 May, 2013

A selection of Yashica T5 shots.

By Hamish Gill

The Yashica T5 was the camera the got me firmly back into this compact camera shooting lark … I have plenty to say about this camera but for now I thought I’d share ...

8 May, 2013

Olympus Trip 35 Review – A cult classic point & shoot

By Hamish Gill

I’m certainly not the first and I suspect I won’t be the last to write a little something about the Olympus Trip 35. I have read this camera had sales figures of aro...

5 May, 2013

Ricoh GR1 Review – The Path to Enlightenment

By Hamish Gill

The Ricoh GR1 was a real eye opener for me! My return to compact cameras started at the end of 2012 with a Yashica T5 (more on that another time – part 1), I had feared so...

3 May, 2013

Fuji Klasse W – Initial Impressions

By Hamish Gill

As I mentioned in a previous post, the Fuji Klasse W represents for me the end of one story and perhaps the beginning of another. I started out my journey as a photographer with...

1 May, 2013

The beginning the middle and the end…

By Hamish Gill

I’ve been taking photos since I was 9. The passion started with a Nikon RF10 that my Nan bought for me … I remember that day well, little did I know how important a ...

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