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18 November, 2025

By Tibra Ali

18 November, 2025

/ Portrait Photography, Reflecting on the past, /

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“Through my lens, I intuitively aim to capture the joy of fleeting moments – it’s not about creating the perfect shot, but instead capturing and preserving a feeling or emotion. The way it feels, rather than the way it looks.” –Anna Landstedt I me...

Digital IR shot of a Paris house hiding behind cascading tree leaves

18 November, 2025

What Lurks Behind These Leaves? – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

18 November, 2025

/ Flora Photograpy, /

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As mentioned here, interesting abstract photos are often mysterious. Like roads, walking paths or stairs to destinations unseen. Or images that hide other information. Like what’s behind the cascading leaves in this Paris 2010 digital IR. Taken wi...

Vintage Nikon Lens 50mm f1.8 ai requiring repair due to focussing problems

18 November, 2025

Nikon 50mm f1.8 AI Lens – No. 1761389

By Ed

18 November, 2025

/ 50mm Lens, Nikon 50mm 1.8 AI, normal lens, /

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The Nikon f1.8 50mm lens has always been well regarded. In pre-digital days, a ‘nifty fifty’ would have been the first lens owned by many photographers, mounted on a new 35mm SLR. This example – 1761389 – came into my hands...

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Box Brownie model 2A.

By Tony Warren

The Kodak Box Brownie 2A and adapting it for 120 film.

A box of Kodak Tri-X 400 120 5 pack photographed by Ted Smith Photography for his online store https://shop.tedsmithphotography.co.uk

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My Decision to become a New UK Film Stockist and Retailer

By TED SMITH

I have been a long time photographer who uses film. More recently, I’ve relied on Kodak Tri-X to create my dark, high-contrast portraits in the studio, sometimes at short notice...

Toileum filter set

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Toileum filter set

By Geoff Chaplin

Toileum – not a name I had come across before. I was looking on Amazon for a yellow filter, having left mine behind in Europe thinking I had a spare set back in Japan but I was ...

Bronica RF645 & (sadly empty) Aerochrome canisters.

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Kodak Aerochrome – And the Economics of Shooting this Unusual Film Stock

By Nick Orloff

I fell in love, instantly, the first time I saw an Aerochrome image, all those otherworldly colours! But the skin tones aren’t impacted? Absolute film magic! For me, it was the ...

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Viltrox Air 15mm f/1.7 – a new lens for APS-C

By Mike Brooks

I recently had the opportunity to test a new prime APS-C lens from Viltrox; the 15mm 1.7 Air in a Nikon Z mount. In full frame terms, that means you have something between a 20...

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