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1 September, 2025

Portraits of Sabrina – An Exercise in Photographic Therapy

By Derek Hope

It’s 1125BC; King Locrinus is King of the Britons. His wife, Gwendolen had learned her husband’s infidelity, of the illegitimate daughter born of Germanic Princess Estrild...

29 August, 2025

‘One Third Keepers’ with a Minolta Dynax 7 and Kentmere Pan 400 exposed at ISO 200

By Bob Janes

The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...

28 August, 2025

5 Frames with a Praktica L – Nothing more than necessary

By Matt Reverzani

I’m all about purity of form and function, and I love a good brutalist design aesthetic. So when I discovered that there was a whole line of cheap and ugly-beautiful SLRs ...

26 August, 2025

Inside a Master Luthier’s Workshop

By Andrea Monti

Craftsmanship is fascinating. It’s almost magical how we can see things in our head and make them happen. This is true for every bit of wisdom that humans have come up wit...

24 August, 2025

A Lucky Roll – An Accidentally Double-Exposed Roll

By Alexandre Kreisman

If, like me you are shooting film and shooting film at an event, well as you might know, sometimes you make mistakes. I recently bought a camera, a SLR and added a motor drive o...

24 August, 2025

Hanoi’s Beer Street with a Broken Ricoh GR1v

By Ali MC

Beer Street, Hanoi. As the name suggests, yes – you can drink beer here. Many beers, in fact, a feat I had evidently achieved this particular evening. Along with inhaling nitrou...

22 August, 2025

The Shape of Loneliness – One Shot Story

By Eagle Omomuro

Taken in Boston, January 2011 with the Minolta 500mm f/8 reflex on my Alpha 9. At this focal length, even ordinary things become intriguing. It’s a perspective I don’t have with...

21 August, 2025

5 frames from my first roll of Kentmere 200

By Roger

On the basis that with a new film it’s useful to see as many examples as possible, here are 5 frames from my first (half) roll of Kentmere 200. I put a roll in my Olympus ...

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