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120 Backing Papers

27 October, 2026

5 Frames From Images in Hiding

By Richard Becker

27 October, 2026

/ Found Photos, /

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I have bought some lots of mixed cameras and photo bits recently from a local auction house, two of the cameras turned out to be carrying antique part-used 120 films, and another box had a roll of exposed but undeveloped 120 Verichrome Pan in it a...

Trent End - The City Ground, Nottingham Forest FC

27 October, 2026

Alone In A Premier League Football Stadium – Nottingham Forest

By edmakesfilms

27 October, 2026

/ Architectural Photography, Documentary Photography, /

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As a professional videographer, I end up in strange ‘waiting situations’ on the job in places that aren’t your average break room. I’d been a Forest fan all my life and attended every home game until I was asked to film a m...

27 October, 2026

The Whispering Breeze of Medina

By Julian Tanase

27 October, 2026

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Walking the narrow streets of the Medina, I feel like Ulysses negotiating his way between Scylla and Charybdis, as the chaotic traffic keeps me on my toes. The air in the city feels like a hot blanket wrapped around me, and the crowd is enhancing ...

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Front face of Expo Watch Camera

23 July, 2025

Expo Watch Camera – Shooting a tiny pocket watch sized camera

By Chris Peregoy

After retiring two years ago from the Art department of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where I managed the photography facilities for over forty years, I have been...

Coudenberg Palace Zeiss Sonnar

22 July, 2025

Underground 2: Coudenberg Palace, with a Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f1.5

By Geoff Chaplin

The Palace of Coudenberg (central Brussels), supposedly one of the finest in Europe, was destroyed by fire in 1731 (CE) and the ruins demolished in the late 18th century to make...

22 July, 2025

Kodachrome 25 K14 – My first and last ever 2 rolls and remembering the ContaxG Pages site

By Ibraar Hussain

In memory of my friend and mentor Lincoln Michaud born February 12th 1940 in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, p[assed away on March 29th 2015 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Kodachrome They...

City skyline

21 July, 2025

Adox HR-50 – A Better Aerial Film

By Omar Tibi

One night months ago, I was hunched over my laptop, feeding my film appetite, looking for a store that had Adox HR-50 in stock. I had just stumbled across it while looking for n...

21 July, 2025

Box Brownie No. 2 – 1888 and all that

By Tony Warren

Review of Box Brownie No. 2

Oberwerth M Bag

20 July, 2025

Oberwerth M Bag – Worth the Price-tag?

By Derek Hope

Wherever you’re from, you’ll have probably heard the old adage “variety is the spice of life”. While this is true in many ways, when it comes to photography gear, I’ve always fo...

20 July, 2025

Oto Fūkei – A Photographic Soundscape from Japan

By Sergei Dubovenko

During a vacation in Japan, I found myself instinctively pairing photographs with audio recordings from the same moments and places. I didn’t know what I was making yet, but I l...

19 July, 2025

Meeting Jamel Shabazz – in which a chance encounter turns into a Master Class in street portraiture

By Scott Ferguson

Photographing people is easy in an urban setting like New York because they are everywhere. Getting good shots of people, maybe not so easy. In my early days of trying to shoot...

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Kevin Saruwatari on Changing LTM cameras to M Mount and learning camera repair (Part 1)27/10/2026
Thank you! I used to modify old cars when I was young. The nice thing about cameras is they only…
Kevin Saruwatari on Changing LTM cameras to M Mount and learning camera repair (Part 1)27/10/2026
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Jeffery Luhn on 5 Frames From Images in Hiding27/10/2026
Richard, This is a very interesting post! Thank you. These photos are a peek into a time machine of sorts.…
Steve Kotajarvi on 5 Frames From Images in Hiding27/10/2026
Oh I love this! I've done the same on several rolls of 35mm film in cameras I've bought, but nothing…
Cosme Lapena on The Whispering Breeze of Medina27/10/2026
Lovely piece, Julian. The second frame, the covered passage with someone sitting on the ground, is my favourite. It holds…

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