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Foma Film

12 January, 2022

5 Frames with an Argus/Cosina STL and Fomapan 400 after the Season’s First Snow – By Dan Smouse

By Dan Smouse

Stopping at the local Salvation Army store whenever I find myself in Kenai has become a regular tradition for me. I go there looking for the underappreciated film cameras of yea...
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27 October, 2021

Ensign Selfix 820 with One Roll of Fomapan 100 – by Steve Phillips

By Steve Phillips

A year ago, on holiday in Cornwall, I took a box camera with me on a coastal walk, and published the results here. One year on, and a camera or two later, here we go again. This...
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6 August, 2021

Three Rolls of Foma at the Fairground With a Minolta Autocord – By Charles Cave

By Charles Cave

Movies were not square. Cartoons were not square. Magazines were not square. Postcards were not square. Since childhood (I’m 33) I had resisted the photographic coffee-coaster r...
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21 July, 2021

5 Frames of Miniature Nostalgia with an Exa 500 – By Peter Roberts

By Peter Roberts

My better half was recently and suddenly admitted to hospital with a previously unsuspected medical condition. I'm glad to say that she responded to treatment and was discharged...
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25 June, 2021

The Retirement of the RNLI Leonard Kent – by Simon King

By Simon King

I was walking down the shoreline in Margate with Amanda and David, complaining to them after a passing seagull had offended my favourite summer scarf, when David pointed out tow...
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23 June, 2021

5 frames with Fomapan 400 in a Nikon F2 in Dungeness, Kent – By Nigel Rumsey

By Nigel Rumsey

Sometimes it can seem that by law, photographers in southeast England, with a few days holiday, have to make a pilgrimage to Dungeness. You’re so likely to bump into another pho...
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14 April, 2021

My Approach to Portrait Photography on Film – By Ken Wagner

By ken Wagner

It is common today that women are photographed sexy and slightly undressed to attract attention to the subject, photographer or both. There is so much of this sort of photograph...
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21 March, 2021

Fomapan Retropan 320 Soft 35mm – In Memoriam – By Yorgo Douramacos

By Yorgo Douramacos

I don’t know exactly when it happened but it seems that Fomapan's Retropan 320 has been discontinued in its 35mm variety. I hope I am wrong but I can find no store that has it i...
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