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1 September, 2023

5 Frames of Kodachrome 25 and 64 – an unromantic retrospective

By Simon Foale

A recent clean-up in the end room of our house resulted in a pile of junk being removed from on top of my light box, a glorious 1.4m long expanse of slide-viewing luxury made fo...

31 August, 2023

5 frames with an Olympus Trip – Sell or Keep?

By Paul Quellin

I didn’t own a car until I was in my mid twenties. In my late teens and early twenties, travel was all about motorcycles. At 17 an Olympus Trip 35 was my companion for on and of...

30 August, 2023

5 Frames with Lomography Metropolis, an OM-2n on the central plains of Kansas – Ruralopolis

By John Pemberton

The first week of June I made a 3 night, 700 mile trip from my home outside Indianapolis, IN to Wichita, KS. I had images in a curated exhibition at the Midwest Center for Phot...

26 August, 2023

5 Frames from a 500mm – A Whole New World

By Robert Johnson

I found a ‘reflex’ telephoto lens from Tamron, f8 and now I cant think about photography in the same way. Ive been looking for a 500mm or higher for a while and bidi...

24 August, 2023

8 Frames with the Canon Sure Shot Classic 120 – a Stress Test

By Alex Gridenko

I am a lazy perfectionist on a tight budget. It’s a tough combination for any hobbyist, especially a film shooter. Especially nowadays. I outsource development and high-res scan...

16 August, 2023

5 Frames with JCH Street Pan in Saratoga Springs, NY

By Kevin Montanaro

Street Pan 400 is a B&W film that was reputedly originally used in Belgian traffic surveillance. Resurrected and put back into production in 2016, it’s a film with goo...

15 August, 2023

5 Frames with Holga 120N and Kodak Porta 160

By Iksung Nah

Is this Holga 120N a toy camera? It feels like it because it is all made of plastic including the lens and the construction of it itself is rather flimsy. However, in spite of t...

12 August, 2023

5 Frames in West Norwood Cemetery with a Minolta SRT-101b and Rokkor 28mm f3.5

By Peter Roberts

Strange thoughts occur to me sometimes when travelling on trains. I happened to be passing through Nunhead on one earlier this year it struck me that I hadn’t yet visited ...

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