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3 August, 2025

Dreaming of the pool (One for Dave Powell)

By Geoff Chaplin

3 August, 2025

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24 July, 2024

Learning to Shoot Fashion Shows on Film

By Ananthan Nambiar

I recently started spending more time with the portrait photography community at university, which heavily intersected with the sustainable fashion community. As a result, I had...

24 July, 2024

Adventures in C-Mount Macro Land

By Dave Powell

C-mount lenses are the tiny optical jewels worn on the fronts of classic 16mm movie cameras. Their minuscule 17.526mm separation between the camera’s mounting flange and f...

23 July, 2024

Agfa Copex Rapid – Development Tests

By Geoff Chaplin

The EU seems to produce a rich array of unusual (“speciality”) films – from Adox, Rollei, Spur and others (many of which are rebranded Agfa-Gaevert films). Trying to get any of ...

23 July, 2024

Zeiss Ikon Ikoflex II – Falling in love with an ancient TLR.

By Steviemac

My first foray into the world of TLR cameras was back in the early 1980’s, courtesy of a brand new Lubitel. I bought it from an old fashioned camera shop on Oldham Street ...

22 July, 2024

Rollei B35 – the German Cousin from Singapore

By Julian Tanase

Back in the early 90s, when I became acquainted to Minox 8×11 cameras, I also started to get an interest in 16mm / 110 film photography. To this day, I still believe they belong...

21 July, 2024

The Cost of the Mamiya 7

By Andrew

In the early days of the pandemic I purchased a Mamiya 7 kit from an old timer at a reasonable price. This had long been a dream camera of mine and I had been searching for one ...

20 July, 2024

Is the Revolution Here Again? (I’m really serious about this.)

By Tony Warren

I read Hamish’s recent review in 35mmc of the new Pentax 17 half frame 35mm camera with interest being an inveterate user of film nowadays. In fact, it stirred in me feelings ab...

19 July, 2024

Rodinal Tests – Temperature, Grain and Contrast

By Geoff Chaplin

Rodinal is a high acutance (sharpness) developer. High acutance means grain as well as the image is more clearly defined. So if I develop at different temperatures either the gr...

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