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Indoor Training -Helicopter rescue with winch

28 October, 2025

Unique Mountain Rescue Training Hall near Munich – and my Ricoh GR III Impressions

By Jens

28 October, 2025

/ Ricoh GRiii, /

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As both a physician and an enthusiastic amateur photographer, my visit in May 2025 to the training hall of the mountain rescue service in Bad Tölz/Gaißach, about 50 km south of Munich in Germany, was an unforgettable highlight. The continuing medi...

Featured image of Canon AE-1 Program

28 October, 2025

My Introduction to Fillm Photography

By Randy Castillo

28 October, 2025

/ Finding Film Photography, /

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My introduction into photography began many years ago around 2015 or 2016 with a Sony digital a5000. A small compact APS-C camera I purchased from Best Buy for a whopping $400! Around this time, I knew nothing about photography. Absolutely nothing...

28 October, 2025

There’s more to the garden than the BBQ – A tale of four cameras and a deadly ladder.

By Simon Bohrsmann

28 October, 2025

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Don’t get me wrong, I love my BBQ. In the summer it smokes and sizzles with all kinds of marinated goodies getting a good char. But a garden needs cheer as well, and that comes from the erratically planted plants which can be divided into ed...

Latest Posts

10 March, 2024

5 Frames with the Mamiya 6 IV-S Folding 6×6 Camera

By Bob Prendergast

I was recently on a photo walk with some fellow film buffs. One of the guys pulled out a beautiful Leica M3 from his bag: “It was my grandfather’s camera,” he said, beaming. Ano...

9 March, 2024

5 Frames with a Voigtlander Vito II

By David James

In my late teens, around 1970, a work colleague invited me round to his place to show me how to print from 35mm film using an enlarger. This moment was a total epiphany for me, ...

8 March, 2024

An eBay Bargain and Impulse Bought Tale of Woe

By Gary Smith

First of all, while I shot film exclusively from 1970 through 1975 and did my own developing and printing that was a long time ago. These days I mostly shoot digital. I’m by no ...

8 March, 2024

Minolta 16 MG sub-miniature camera.

By Tony Warren

I bought this Minolta 16 camera when I prematurely thought my efforts with 110 to use the film slitter I had made had hit the buffers. It has turned out to be something of a cur...

7 March, 2024

5 Frames with Agfa APX 400 in the Midwinter

By Julian Tanase

I spent a few days in a quiet rural area, before actually reopening the business for 2024. You know, that time space between the end of year and beginning of the new daily strif...

7 March, 2024

5 Frames of expired CineStill 800T with a Leica M4 and 7Artisans 35mm f/2.0

By AndreArma

The film photographer’s life is full of silly mistakes. Some big, some small, and some… unforgivable. For example, tidying up my fridge, I realized that I let two ro...

6 March, 2024

Finding War and Peace in London – reflections after shooting London’s grand demonstration for Gaza

By Chenye Xiao

“Human-being will always repeat the same mistakes”(“人は同じ過ちを繰り返す”）- Mobile Suits Gundam Z This is a quote from the famous Japanese animation, Mobile Suit Gundam Z, li...

5 March, 2024

10 Botanical Frames in Black and White – Why on Earth Would You Do It?

By Simon Foale

Green is my favourite colour by a good margin, and it’s probably mainly because I like being around plants. I find lush tropical plant life relaxing and reassuring. It lowers th...

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