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Paper Negatives before they are scanned and inverted

11 February, 2025

What I Love About Paper Negatives

By Ian Gamester

11 February, 2025

/ Alternative Process, Large Format, Paper Negatives, /

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Color photo of a Konica Pearl III medium format folding camera.

25 November, 2024

Konica Pearl III Medium Format Folder – Review and Street Shots from NYC

By Chad Gayle

As much as I love film, I’ve always had a love / hate relationship with medium format. Spoiled by the speed of 35mm’s fast lenses and the liberal largesse of 4...

24 November, 2024

Lesson Learned Again – A One Shot Story

By Floyd

Those of us who travel with film kits live on the knife edge of disaster every time we head out for a day of shooting. Most of our gear is likely 20 to 40 years old, very possib...

24 November, 2024

Converting Colour and B&W Film Negs – an Evolution

By Marco Andrés

Today there are many options for converting colour and b&w negatives to positives that combine hardware and software. In contrast to now, when I embarked on this journey, th...

23 November, 2024

The great Agfa Scala 200x disaster

By nzcarl

This is a tale of discovery, disappointment, joy and finally utter, utter confusion. I have always admired Agfa Scala. The idea of a black and white slide film was absolutely bo...

23 November, 2024

Two cameras with a common shortcoming

By John Furlong

LOMO LC-A I’ve owned a LOMO LC-A for some years and enjoyed its inherent ‘quirkiness’ – both in the image quality and operation: – the easy to ...

22 November, 2024

A Castle You Say?

By Ron Duda

Karen, our excellent travel agent, asked if we wanted to stay a while in a castle. My wife was quicker than I when she responded; sure! We were planning a trip to th...

22 November, 2024

PIC Camera – Having fun with the rare round British made oddity

By Dan Cuny

The PIC camera was on my list of cameras to review just before I returned to work after the two years lost years of COVID-19. Recently, when I looked up from my desk and saw the...

Horizon S3 Pro. Swing-lens panoramic film camera

21 November, 2024

The Wider View – learning to create panoramic images

By Dave Whenham

Over the last few years my photography has definitely moved away from landscape to urban subjects. Of course, restrictions due to the pandemic were the catalyst for this s...

Alan Gauld on 5 Frames from a Braun Paxina 29 – a mid 1950s “compact” camera.
Thanks Peter. I was disappointed in the results I must admit. My Yashica TLR is very sharp and I've printed…
Peter McGowan on 5 Frames from a Braun Paxina 29 – a mid 1950s “compact” camera.
Very interesting review. I have a Braun Gloria from a similar era, and also can't get a sharp picture from…
Daniel Emerson on 5 Frames from a Braun Paxina 29 – a mid 1950s “compact” camera.
Hi Alan, Thanks for the rundown on your experiences. Enjoyed your photos and would be happy to hang Woodland Stream…

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