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26 December, 2024

Olympus XA-2 – An old friend

By Chris Davenport

26 December, 2024

/ Olympus Point & Shoot, Olympus Scale Focus Camera, Olympus XA2, Scale Focus Camera, /

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27 August, 2017

Jupiter-8m (Brian Sweeney modified) – Finding My Perfect Classic Sonnar PT8

By Hamish Gill

If you've been following this series of posts about the path I've been walking to find myself a perfect classic Sonnar, you will have likely come to the conclusion that I've bec...

20 August, 2017

Lumu Power review – the tiny full featured light meter

By Hamish Gill

The Lumu Power is without any doubt the most full featured light meter I have ever owned. It's tiny, it weighs hardly anything, it manages to offer a feature set that expands wa...

19 August, 2017

My First Roll of Film – Guest post by Eve North

By Eve

Do you remember your first roll of film? What camera you shot it with? What feelings you had? Mine wasn't that long ago. A few months ago I asked my father for a film camera. H...

16 August, 2017

Film Photography and Street Photography Workshops, London 25/08/17 – Book your place now

By Hamish Gill

Next Friday the 25th of August 2017 I will be in London running a film photography workshop. Straight after there is a street photography workshop run by Spyros from StreetHunte...

13 August, 2017

Sony A5100 review and (quite personal) setup guide

By Hamish Gill

The Sony A5100 is by many accounts a great little camera. It's very small, it does pretty decent quality video, it has very fast autofocus, a flippy-uppy screen and is compatibl...

5 August, 2017

Finding details in the city: part 1 – International District – Guest post by Carlos Argott

By C. Argott

It’s very easy to be excited about all the new photographic opportunities when one is traveling, but sometimes it becomes much harder to feel inspired in the city where you live.

4 August, 2017

10 Pocket money Classic Cameras – Part 2 – Guest post by Alan Duncan

By Alan Duncan

In my rundown of great but very different cameras you can buy for the cost of a takeaway, we've had some belters. In the first 5 we had a great rangefinder, a 50's classic, 110 ...

31 July, 2017

10 Pocket money Classic Cameras – Part 1 – Guest post by Alan Duncan

By Alan Duncan

Psst!! Wanna buy a classic camera for less than the price of a Takeaway Pizza? Don't panic and run! This isn't some dodgy knock off deal or the garage sale find of the century ...

Andrew L on Petri Color 35 – A Love Letter to a favourite camera
A fitting write-up on the excellent Petri Color 35. I really enjoyed mine, which I dug out of a pile…
Art Meripol on Olympus XA-2 – An old friend
I loved my little XA. Don''t remember if it was a two or not. On my honeymoon in San Francisco…
Alex on NEWS: Introducing the Omnar 35mm f/3.5 Pantessa FLB (YS35-35FLB)
lovely! for those going on about the price, take a look at the price premium cinematographers pay to have photo…

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