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23 November, 2024

Two cameras with a common shortcoming

By John Furlong

23 November, 2024

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Minolta X-700 camera with a box of Harman Phoenix

11 August, 2024

5 Frames with a Minolta X-700 and Harman Phoenix in Krakow, Poland

By James Billings

I’d wanted to try Harman Phoenix for a while. When it was released in late 2023, there was a lot of excitement for a new colour film – not a repackaged Kodak cine-fi...

10 August, 2024

5 Frames Going Square with 35mm Film in a Minolta 24 Rapid

By Marco Andrés

So you like square format but you don’t want to pay the price for medium format or bear the weight and prefer the convenience of 135. And if you can barely get through 36...

9 August, 2024

An Accidental Living-Room – A One Shot Story

By Danilo Leonardi

The photograph illustrating this post was taken nine summers ago, on a Sunday, while I was walking along the Thames Path in East London, not far from the Canada Water DLR Statio...

9 August, 2024

Retina IIc and the Kodak Retina system

By Tony Warren

A few years ago my cousin passed her father’s Retina IIc on to me including a lens hood, a couple of filters and a 1958 copy of The Retina Way by O. R. Croy. This informa...

8 August, 2024

5 Frames with Ilford Ortho Plus

By Roger

I’d been wanting to try some slower films and after a review decided to try some Ilford Ortho Plus. The opportunity to try it out came with a short trip to Somerset, so I ...

8 August, 2024

Adventures in C-Mount 110-Film Scanning

By Dave Powell

In a previous article, I explored macro-photography using C-mount cine lenses attached to a Fiji X-Pro1 APS-C digital. In those three experiments, I discovered that my mounting ...

7 August, 2024

Shooting LF – Trying the Ultimate Inanimate Subject First – A One Shot Story

By Mathias Wedeken

My journey into photography started when I was about 7 years old, in the early 80s, when I got a very simple Agfa Instamatic sensor camera (it took 126 film) as a gift from my a...

7 August, 2024

That time I sent a letter to the president of Canon, and got a reply.

By juan badel

It was the 9th year of the third millennium. One of the last years in which western civilization advanced forward. Some of the last good music was being recorded, and there was ...

Geoff Chaplin on A Castle You Say?
Yes, great shots and well done taking the D with little prior experience. I too found no problem getting film…
Philip on The Whole Roll: Harman Phoenix 120 in Minolta Autocord MX
It really does seem like Phoenix 200 was meant for the 120 format. Likely due to the smaller negative size,…
Simon Foale on Memorable photos made with forgettable lenses
Thanks for this Tony. I've been reading with admiration your posts, many of which showcase your impressive capacity to construct…

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