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Rollei RPX400

30 November, 2024

Shooting in a cemetery leads to uncovering a local tragedy (and then another). Dangerous currents.

By Keith Drysdale

In 2022 I visited the churchyard at St Mary the Virgin at Horton near Blyth to shoot one of my favourite subjects – memorial stones. There has been a church on this site s...
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A monument depicting a soldier holding a rifle and bayonet.

7 November, 2024

People’s Park Chengdu with an Olympus XA3 and expired Rollei RPX 400

By Howard Mitchell

I’m lucky enough to be able to spend a couple of months in Chengdu, China each year as part of my job and usually stay in the central part of town. I take a different film camer...
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19 November, 2022

5 Frames with Rollei RPX400 – pushed one stop at SynthFest, Sheffield – By Ted Ayre

By Ted Ayre

My old school mate Will and I love music, and when we meet up it’s usually first on the topic of conversation. We both play a variety of instruments, but synthesisers are a uniq...
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4 December, 2021

Street Protests on Film: Leica M2 and Rolleiflex 2.8F – By Exphotog

By exphotog

I remember covering the Black Lives Matter protests in the US a few years ago--before I made the switch to analog full time--vividly: the police sirens, blocked streets, chantin...
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3 April, 2020

36 frames / A Whole Roll of Rollei RPX400 – The first #FullRollFriday – By Jeremy Strange

By jeremystrange

I probably watch too much YouTube, particularly reviews of cameras, film stocks, anything really that’s photography related. The problem is that the more I watch the easier is t...
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8 November, 2018

5 frames with a Canon 7, 35/2 lens and Rollei RPX400 – by Anthony Chatain

By AC

As a follow-up to to my “5 frames with Canon 7 + 50/1.4 + Ilford HP5+” article published a few months ago on EMULSIVE, here is the my other Canon LTM lens: the 35mm ...
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