Kentmere 400 Archives

Jimmy taking a picture on a medium format camera, with a building behind with red paint on.

15 June, 2024

One Photographer and Two Cameras for Spares & Repairs

By Joel Rouse

My last article, Two Photographers, One Camera, and the Crushing Disappointment of Film, attracted a fair amount of comments—encouraging and not-so-encouraging. The results from...

10 June, 2024

5 frames with a Nikon FM2 & Kentmere 400 pushed to 3200

By Máté Krausz

I am definitively a newcomer when it comes to film photography. Apart from a few rolls taken with point-and-shoot cameras as a child, I was shooting only digital until I picked ...

20 December, 2023

5 Frames With a Trip 35 – A Brace of Olympi Pt. 2

By Peter Roberts

Olympus compacts seemed to have been like London buses for a while round our way. No sooner had I caught the XA2 than it was closely followed by a Trip 35 at the same charity sh...

13 December, 2023

5 Frames With an XA2 – A Brace of Olympi, Pt. 1

By Peter Roberts

Love them or hate them, and personally I love them, charity shops (read thrift stores or op shops if you will) have become a ubiquitous feature of most high streets. At their pr...

18 November, 2023

10 Frames from a Tour by Bicycle around New Haven

By shawn granton

New Haven, Connecticut is best known these days for Yale University, one of the world’s most prestigious higher learning institutions. For some, Yale equals New Haven. But The E...

16 November, 2023

5 Frames through the Mamiya 6 with Kentmere Pan 400

By Gabe Ginsburg

For the last 5 months, I’ve been drilling street photography with a 35mm camera. The camera body bouncing up and down on my hip bone felt rhythmic and natural. Drawing the lens ...

26 February, 2023

5 Frames with a Leica IIIa, Canon LTM 50mm f2.8 lens and Kentmere 400 – By Richard de Bulat

By Richard de Bulat

I have used this little Leica for a couple of years having bought it 2nd hand during the Lock-downs. The original lens was the Elmar 5cm f3.5, the type that sits inside the came...

1 December, 2022

Ilford Kentmere 120 – A Review in Paris – By Molly Kate

By Molly Kate

You might have seen the news already, but if not, today is the launch of Ilford’s Kentmere range in medium format. Kentmere 35mm 100 and 400 ISO films have been available under ...

Charles Young on My Favorite Photo of 2025?
Interesting photo ... shows the multicultural mix of the crowd! I suggest lightening up (holding back) the faces of the…
Craig Wantuch on 7Artisans 60mm 2.8 Macro Lenses – A Comparison of Two Lenses for Film Scanning
Thank you for this test. I recently updated my film scanning to use micro 4/3 with an OM-1 Mk II…
Hamish Gill on Viltrox 85mm 1.8 STM II (Nikon Z Mount) Review
I'm after an D810 myself at the minute too. I was going to get an adapter for the Z to…

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