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13 November, 2025

5 Frames with Kodak Portra 800 Pushed to 3200 at Thin Air Exhibition

By Kristian Smith

13 November, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Portra 800, /

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13 September, 2024

Minolta 7000 – Finding an eBay Bargain

By John Greene

Over the years I have become a little more savvy at buying and selling on eBay and I recently managed to bag, what to me, is a super bargain. Rewinding back to around 1986 our h...

12 September, 2024

The Boat Graveyard

By Geoff Chaplin

The Gloucester and Sharpness ship canal – at one time the broadest and deepest in the world – connects the docks on the River Severn to the city of Gloucester about 16 miles awa...

12 September, 2024

Negatives from the Original 1888 Kodak Camera

By Dan Cuny

I’ve been digitizing negatives for over 15 years and collecting them for almost 40. I have never seen any of the original Kodak camera negatives, so when I recently looked...

11 September, 2024

Shooting Kite Surfing

By Andrea Monti

Kite surfing is quite spectacular but difficult to photograph. As with any water sport, the main difference that affects the results is whether or not the photographer is embedd...

11 September, 2024

Barnack to Barnack – my Thread Mount Leica Journey so far

By John Greene

On my journey trying out many different film cameras I went through a Leica M phase, spending time with an M4-P, M3, M2 and M7. When using the M3 which was only a year younger t...

Sonia Delaunay's painting "Le Bal Bullier"

10 September, 2024

A Painterly Puzzle – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Art is often a puzzle. But the above piece is especially lively fun. It’s my 1×4-foot ink-jet print of Sonia Delaunay’s 3×11-foot 1913 painting “Le Bal Bullier.” In 2...

10 September, 2024

Kodak Ektramax Fireworks and a Cool 110 Tip

By Dave Powell

The above image is the cover of my Kodak Ektramax 110 camera’s substantial 34-page user manual. It’s more interesting than a straight pic of the camera itself, which Kodak made ...

9 September, 2024

Pentax K100D – The only digital camera that I have any affection for

By Phil Harrison

I’ve never really been enthusiastic about digital cameras, seeing them as an necessary inconvenience, I just use them when I need colour photos these days. I do get restle...

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