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11 August, 2020

Sprocket Rocket 2.0 Review – A Day at the Fair – By Alex Vye

By Alex Vye

The Sprocket Rocket is a plastic, panoramic 35mm camera that offers a 1:3 aspect ratio. The lens is a 30mm with f/10.8 and f/16 settings, and a fixed mechanical shutter with a s...

11 August, 2020

Disposable Camera Holiday Snaps – Moments of Truth (Part One) – By Brian Nicholls

By MrSnappy

We’ve all got George Eastman and his Brownie cameras to thank for creating the tool for vernacular photography. That simple principle of combining a single element, fixed focus ...

10 August, 2020

Minolta X300 – Turning Back Time with my 35 Year Old SLR – By Richard Wilford

By Richard Wilford

I was given a Minolta X300 for my 21st birthday. It wasn’t my first camera but it was my first SLR, and I’m still using it 35 years later. For 23 years it was virtually all I us...

10 August, 2020

Contax RTS Review – Second Time Lucky

By Hamish Gill

The Contax RTS is a camera I’ve now had two experiences with. In fact, most of the content of this review was written around the time of first contact with one. That earlier ver...

7 August, 2020

Vivitar Tec 45 / Panasonic C-600 Review – Remarkable Machines Without A Reputation – By Thang Nguyen

By Thang Nguyen

This maybe the first time you have heard of The Vivitar Tec 45? It's a re-branded camera made by Panasonic for the US market, and is branded as the Panasonic C-600 for the rest ...

6 August, 2020

Film Shots – Another Film Exif App For Android And iOS, But With A Difference – By Oleksii Novikov

By Oleksii Novikov

I hope you will love my new app 'Film Shots' - it lets you log your data right from the Lock screen and integrates with Lightroom.

4 August, 2020

The Colours of Shanghai / How I came to Publish a Photozine of XPAN shots – By Benoît Felten

By Ben Felten

I am in the process of publishing (and pre-selling) a zine called The Colours of Shanghai. It collects panoramic XPAN photos taken in Shanghai between 2014 and 2016. In August ...

3 August, 2020

Samsung EX2F Review – A Pocket Camera No One Remembers – Orkhan Abbasov

By Orkhan Abbasov

In 2014 my sister was looking forward to buying a new camera and asked for a suggestion. I don’t remember when or where I first heard about Samsung EX2F. It caught my attention ...

Steviemac on A Grand Day out Discovering a Canon EOS 5, Pal M4 and a Carl Zeiss Jena Panacolar
I didn't realise that the Pancolar was one of the mildly radioactive lenses. I like it, but I suspect the…
Steviemac on A Grand Day out Discovering a Canon EOS 5, Pal M4 and a Carl Zeiss Jena Panacolar
Thank you Gary, I was quite pleased with how the panorama cheat came out. The Agfa Vista film seems to…
Gus on 5 frames exploring the Sporting Gun Culture in Italy
Oh wow, what a cool experience to be at that level! A good friend of mine used to compete in…

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