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18 October, 2025

5 Frames with the Bessa L, Kodak Gold 200 and Alpine Classics at Lake Walchensee

By Jens

18 October, 2025

/ Kodak Fil, Kodak Gold 200, Voigtlander Bessa L, /

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18 July, 2024

Visiting Algeria with My Olympus XA

By tomodayes

I took a trip back to Algeria to see my grandfather. Packed my faithful Olympus XA. I needed a camera I could easily hide for some street shots. Wikipedia moment: Algeria, the b...

18 July, 2024

Minolta AL-F – Getting to know ALF

By Paul Quellin

Minolta; you might love the brand, or take the view their products were inferior. I know camera branding can elicit these responses. It was a long time ago, but in my late teens...

Photograph of a Kodak Autographic camera

17 July, 2024

5 Frames with ‘a’ Kodak Autographic № 3.

By Richard Becker

To be accurate this is bending the rules somewhat for ‘5 Frames With’ as although there are only 5 frames also involved are: 2 Kodak Autographic № 3 cameras 3 photographers 2 di...

17 July, 2024

How to Make Tea… PC-TEA that is

By Sam Hesford

I have been developing my own film for a few years now and am slightly addicted to the process. There is just something magic about loading your film into the spools adding the ...

16 July, 2024

5 Frames of Sunsets in Black and White

By Geoff Chaplin

Aren’t sunsets about colour? Black and white is pattern and texture of course but more than that, for me at least, it captures the soul or atmosphere of the scene. I find black ...

16 July, 2024

Controlling the shutter on an automatic Polaroid pack camera

By Jim Skelton

Polaroid pack film cameras are very cool. Sitting somewhere between medium and large format (3″x4″), these cameras took instant peel-apart pictures that looked and f...

15 July, 2024

Chinon CE-4 and Pentax SMC 50mm f1.7 – Think Different

By Ibraar Hussain

This is a review of the Chinon CE4, but first a little background. After Pentax revealed their plan to design and manufacture new Film cameras I had a sudden urge to use a Penta...

14 July, 2024

A Second Outing with the Pentax Auto 110 with Fomapan 400.

By Tony Warren

Encouraged by my recent first experience with the Pentax Auto 110 I tried a second film. This was Fomapan 400 downrated to ISO 100 in Rodinal at 1:50 because the camera has only...

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