Kentmere Film Archives

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 ...

5 June, 2024

5 frames with Nikkormat FT3 in Meidling, Wien

By Julian Tanase

Again, Vienna. There’s something about this city; it attracts me in a way that no other city does. The place is a dream come true for any photographer, be that medium of film or...

9 March, 2024

5 Frames with a Voigtlander Vito II

By David James

In my late teens, around 1970, a work colleague invited me round to his place to show me how to print from 35mm film using an enlarger. This moment was a total epiphany for me, ...

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...

8 July, 2023

5 Frames with a Houghton Ensign Box 2¼B

By Ralph Turner

It’s funny what catches your eye when you’re casually roaming around the ‘Bay. The words “rapid rectilinear” caught my eye, a lens type well respected in it’s day. After a littl...

16 May, 2023

5 frames of cheap cheap cheap in the Far East. An Argus C3, caffenol and Kentmere Pan 100.

By Hans

"Wow." the merchant let out a subtle gasp as I pulled out an Argus C3 to test another camera's shutter in Namdaemun camera market, Seoul. I am not sure an Argus is used to heari...

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...

Ron Duda on Kodak Eastman 5230 – The Time(s) I Shot This Curious Eastman Background Film
Thanks Jeff. I shot some more of the film just today using a 105mm micro lens on a Nikon FM2.…
Dann on Leica M3 – Becoming an Owner in 2025: Romance, Reality, and a Very Shiny Viewfinder
Congratulations to you, Tony Page - yours is the finest essay-article I've read in many years on what I consider…
Danai on Exploring Hat Yai’s Famous Night Market with a roll of Kodak Tri-X
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the photos.

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