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22 May, 2026

Nikon FE – Out of the Drawer and Into the Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvanation (Part Four)

By Niall Keohane

This article doesn’t quite fit my ‘Out of the Drawer’ series, but then again it sort of does. Perhaps it should be called, ‘Reverse lens macro photography with a Nikkor 50...

22 May, 2026

Nikon F2 – A few from the first roll

By Gary Smith

I recently added a Nikon F2 to the stable and loaded it up with Kodak Portra 400. The following shots were taken over several days in several locations with two lenses: the pre-...

21 May, 2026

Thypoch Ksana 35mm f/2 ASPH Review

By vincentbihler

Thypoch has quickly made a name for itself in the Leica community, thanks to its compelling lenses for the M mount. Since the launch of their Simera lineup, which offered high-p...

Frames film photography logbook & Metadata iPhone app

21 May, 2026

Frames, One Year Later – Building a Film Photography Logbook App Full Time

By Vincent

A year ago I wrote a piece here introducing Frames, an app to log film photography metadata and write it back into your scans. What I didn’t tell you was that I’d ju...

20 May, 2026

Rolleiflex 3.5B – Thoughts After 3 Rolls

By Gary Smith

This past week I received the lab scans from my third roll through the Rollei. For fun I thought that I’d try a roll of Lomo Turquoise. In early April I posted a single sh...

20 May, 2026

Fujica GW690 with Bulb Setting – Mini Review

By Simon Foale

I spotted this camera online while looking for something else and, after double checking that it really was a Fujica GW690 with an actual B setting on the shutter speed ring, I ...

19 May, 2026

Alfie [BOXX] Mini-Review – A Wonderful and Truly Analogue Experience – Launched Today on Kickstarter!

By Hamish Gill

The Alfie [BOXX] has just launched on Kickstarter – you can find the campaign here! I had a wonderfully analogue photography experience a week or so back! Dave Faulkner fr...

18 May, 2026

Voigtländer Bessa R2A – My thoughts after 6 months of use

By Gallo

Just a quick opening note: This article was originally written in French and then translated into English. As a French speaker, it may seem surprising that I chose to write a re...

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Tony Warren on Nikon F2 – A few from the first roll
Hi Gary. Some nice results and great locations. I have had an F3HP and several Nikkormats, now just an F801/8008…
Ibraar Hussain on Carl Zeiss Ultron 50mm 1.8 and Pentax K1 – An Empirical Field Test
Wasn’t this a Voigtlander design?
Andrés Purriños on Nikon FE – Out of the Drawer and Into the Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvanation (Part Four)
Probably my most used camera is a Nikon FM, the fully mechanical shutter sister of the FE. Its special part…

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