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24 November, 2019

5 Frames With the runt of the litter: The Olympus XA1 – Brian Nicholls

By MrSnappy

The Olympus XA1 was ntroduced in 1982. This little gem of a clamshell 35mm compact was the simplest and cheapest of the XA series. It has a fixed-focus f/4 to f/22 x 4 element Z...

23 November, 2019

5 Frames by Candlelight: 0.5-4s Exposures on Ilford HP5+ at EI 800 – by Simon King

By Simon King

We've reached the season of pushing film; early nights begin to encroach, and rain clouds diffuse the day. This time last year I started to play with Delta 3200 for everyday use...

23 November, 2019

5 Frames With FPP Retrochrome 400 – by Simon King

By Simon King

Slide film is a very difficult concept for me, as my experience of it so far has been the options currently in production - quite a bit more expensive than negative film, and fe...

21 November, 2019

5 frames of the Extinction Rebellion with a Leica R5 – by Michael Scott

By scottfotodotcom

Mention Leica and most photographers think of their legendary ‘M’ rangefinder cameras. In contrast, Leica’s ‘R’ SLR film cameras are more forgotten. Which means they are cheap(e...

20 November, 2019

5 Frames with Fomapan 400 “Action” at EI200, Developed Normally – by Simon King

By Simon King

I recently wrote a 5 Frames With Fomapan 400 where I described the results shot at EI1600 with a 2 stop push. Although these weren't excessively bad I think I'll be sticking to ...

18 November, 2019

5 Frames with the Pentax Spotmatic F and Kodak Gold 200 – By Jérémie Schuler

By jeremieschuler

I’m a French Sales Engineer living in Berlin, also working part time as a photographer and videographer. Over the years, I just managed to get rid of the French accent, but not ...

17 November, 2019

(First) 5 Frames With Kodak Tri-x 400 – By Jake Yorath

By Jake Yorath

I’ve always loved photography, but going semi-professional – shooting motor racing – strangled that, and I stopped photographing anything for a very long time. A decade or so la...

16 November, 2019

5 Frames with the Nikon L35AF and Kodak Portra 800 in the german woods – By Martin Holman

By marto_35mm

After using the Olympus XA3 for street photography, I slowly felt the need for a point & shoot with a faster lens and more precise focus. Don’t get me wrong, zone focusing w...

Gary Smith on Remembering an old, broken camera.
Thanks Simon, those are pretty cool shots! You'd be hard-pressed to manually come up with multi-image composites with the same…
Gary Smith on Memories of Eden – A One Shot Story
I never made quite as far north as the Dolomites while I was in Italy. Your shot is reason to…
Jeff T. on Our Annual Brean Day with my Leica CL, Omnar Pantessa FLB and Ilford XP2
Thanks for the reply and explanation. I don't wonder why the Omnar lenses are so costly, and certainly the quality…

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