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9 June, 2025

Balda CA 35 – A Fantastic little camera shot with Kodak Eastman Double X 5222

By Ibraar Hussain

9 June, 2025

/ Balda CA 35, Balda Scale Focus Camera, Scale Focus Camera, /

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5 September, 2024

Harman Phoenix – Now Available in 120 – My First few Rolls

By Alexander Doran

Harman Photo have today announced the release of their Phoenix colour film in 120 format. Previously only available in 35mm, this released has been teased and leaked over the in...

5 September, 2024

Early Auto Exposure – Three Different Approaches

By Tony Warren

When my original plans for the Agfa Selecta M I bought a little impulsively recently were clearly not going to happen, the camera type in general began to interest me. I already...

4 September, 2024

When Kitsch Becomes Collectible

By Dave Powell

I just experienced huge culture shock about that thing up there. During the 1980s and early ‘90s, I was a computer-networking journalist and editor for publications like Minicom...

4 September, 2024

Returning to home developing – an expired roll of FP4 and perhaps a Pen EE

By Michael Zwicky-Ross

Ibraar Hussain recently posted a review of a Chinon CE-4 and his experiences with it which I found very interesting. So interesting that a few days later a house-clearance, unte...

Mystery painting and its novel signature

3 September, 2024

That Time I Played Art Detective — One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Sometimes, the world is indeed small. In 2015, Kate and I moved from a 1,700-square-foot Cape-style house to a 2,700 square-foot retirement condo with exceedingly high cathedral...

3 September, 2024

My Asylum Years

By John Greene

Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was quite en...

2 September, 2024

Zhiyun Molus G300 Review – Incredibly Compact and Bright LED Light

By Sroyon

If you’re into videography, you most likely know of Zhiyun, a Chinese company which makes a range of very popular gimbals. Zhiyun also make lights, and while I suspect the...

1 September, 2024

5 Frames with a Hasselblad 501 C – ZEISS 80mm f/2.8 and Kodak Gold 200 – By Eric L. Woods

By Eric

Quite a few years ago a kind co-worker basically gave me this Hasselblad 501c at the price I paid. And from the first roll I was hooked. I heard someone say in a video recently ...

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