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18 March, 2016

Svema former USSR Bulk Film – by Eric ‘kAAs’ Sluis

By Eric 'Kaas' Sluis

For me, the secret is film from the former USSR, you need to find them of course, that’s half the battle, and you can find them, duh, in the former USSR and most interesting are...

5 March, 2016

MS-Optics converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar – 35mm Lens conversion – Part 2

By Hamish Gill

In the last part of this story I was deliberating over the choice of converting the Yashica T4's Tessar vs the Nikon L35's Sonnar to M-mount. Whilst I was dead set on the latter...

5 March, 2016

Ricoh FF-8WR – one roll review

By Hamish Gill

The Ricoh FF-8WR is one of a bunch of compact cameras that I didn’t recently get shot of. This might sound like an odd distinction to make, but recently I parted company w...

1 March, 2016

Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim – Modifying & Shooting – by Charles Higham

By Charles Higham

The Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim 35mm film camera (sometimes shortened to VUWS or UWS) was made in China and sold for not much money as a truly basic point and shoot with an unus...

24 February, 2016

Nightcap Pro – An iPhone camera app review

By Hamish Gill

You're probably wondering what on earth a blog post about a camera app is doing on a website about 35mm compact cameras? Well it's quite simple, a lot of the photos I take of th...

22 February, 2016

Minolta Riva Panorama – A Fun Intermezzo – by Aukje

By Aukje

My first year of shooting film Part 6 (Read Part 5 here) I have a confession to make. I am starting to feel a bit like I am cheating, and slowly it is making me feel more uncomf...

18 February, 2016

Olympus 35RC – 3 Days in Hong Kong – by Jay Meador

By Jay Meador

I found an Olympus 35RC at a thrift store in the US for $15 during the summer of 2015. At that point, I already had a Canonet QL17 GIII and an Olympus 35SP, but this ...

12 February, 2016

Ricoh R1 Review (Rollei Prego Micron) – An overlooked achiever – by Benn

By Benn Murhaaya

While I was visiting San Francisco in September last year, my friend Arachide presented me with handful of cameras. Those were his thrift store finds. I am still amazed by what ...

Jeffery Luhn on Lomo Daylight developing tank – A review
Bob, What a well written review/tutorial! For the trouble and expense, you make a good case for the Patterson or…
Bob Janes on Lomo Daylight developing tank – A review
I guess you could feed the film with some form of pinch roller, but he whole thing with backing paper…
Marcus Gunaratnam on Lomo Daylight developing tank – A review
I will stick to my paterson tank and adjustable reel which takes upto 120 film and dark bag than switch…

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