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28 December, 2023

Review of the Crown + Flint Mobile App for Film Photographers: Simple, Intuitive, and Helpful

By Molly Kate

Crown + Flint is a new iOS and Android mobile app for film photographers created by Silicon Valley veteran, Don Goodman-Wilson. It’s a complete workflow app that helps an...

23 December, 2023

Minolta Dynax 9xi – That difficult second ‘Pro’ AF SLR

By Bob Janes

This is a review of the Minolta Dynax 9xi (aka Minolta Maxxum/Alpha 9xi, hereafter referred to as the Dynax 9xi). It was Minolta’s second ‘professional’ Autofo...

22 December, 2023

Rene Selection 5207 – Trying out an Incredible film for my #filmstocktryouts project

By Darren Fielding

Being new to film photography and the wonderfully complicated world of film stocks, I decided, like any semi-sane human male would, to dive really deep into the thick of things ...

21 December, 2023

Some Cool Books for 35mmc Readers (Part 2)

By Dave Powell

Part 1 of this article described interesting and useful books about: Film Cameras & Systems Digital Photography & Processes Photographic Arts & Techniques This final...

18 December, 2023

PAM Britar 105mm f/4.5 – An American Triplet Review

By Agata Urbaniak

Despite being very fond of my Leitz lenses, there’s always something exciting about picking up a lesser-known third-party lens. With little to no information available onl...

14 December, 2023

Agfa Copex Rapid developed in H&W Control

By Simon Foale

The tantalising mysteries of microfilms (AKA ‘copy’ or ‘document’ films) grabbed my attention almost as soon as I re-entered the world of film a few ...

4 December, 2023

Nikon Zoom 700 VR Mini-Review

By Douwe Krooshof

I’ve owned and shot many analogue cameras over the past 20 years, and lately I’m in a point-and-shoot phase. This is the first time that I feel the urge to shoot s...

1 December, 2023

Harman Phoenix 200 – First Roll Review & Experiences

By Hamish Gill

Sometime mid October I had an ominous message from Michelle at HARMAN Technology saying she needed to talk to me about something. I must admit, seeing as it was the day before t...

Jeffery Luhn on Converting Colour and B&W Film Negs – an Evolution
Marco, Thanks for your simplified approach to the color negative conversion task. I don't normally shoot color film, but I…
Marco Andrés on Converting Colour and B&W Film Negs – an Evolution
Filmlab is subscription only, unfortunately. In order of preference: SmartConvert, Chemvert and Gimp.
Chris Davenport on Finding the Best 126 Cartridge Camera – Part I
Good news for you... FPP just announced they are carrying 127 film. A couple years ago I bought about 20…

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