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Tlell River

31 October, 2025

5 Frames on Haida Gwaii

By Derek Ulrich

31 October, 2025

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You really have to want to get to Haida Gwaii from, well, anywhere. In theory it’s quite simple to get to Haida Gwaii from Vancouver. Simply head east on Highway 1, or the Sea to Sky. Link up with the 97 past Cache Creek or Lillooet. And keep head...

31 October, 2025

The Glamorous Side to Motor Racing – A One Shot Story

By James Roberts

31 October, 2025

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There aren’t many sports more glamorous than motor racing, and whilst Formula 1 might grab all the headlines, it’s not as exciting as it’s made out to be, and not very inclusive where the fans are concerned. The European Le Mans Series (ELMS...

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31 October, 2025

A Haunted House for Halloween!

By Dave Powell

31 October, 2025

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This was the most haunted place I ever lived. And the most vicious. You wouldn’t recognize it today, though. It’s now surrounded by trees. And across three-quarters of a century, owners after us added a third floor, peaked roof and living-room exp...

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20 April, 2019

5 Frames With Olympus AF10 (aka Infinity Jr) and the roll of film it came with – By Matt Krajewski

By Pure.amateur

I keep buying and buying film cameras, not all of them that I come across. But an Olympus? With a film inside? For £3? That would be a sin not to. The Olympus AF10 Super or Infi...

19 April, 2019

Zenit-E: A Love Letter To The Unloved – By Dan Fernandez

By Dan Fernandez

Your kilo of soviet metal, your light meter which stopped working decades ago, your dark, murky viewfinder designed to just miss focus, your rewind mechanism engineered to give ...

18 April, 2019

5 Frames with a Mamiya C220 and Portra 160 NC – By Trenton Trammell

By Trenton Trammell

Buying a new camera is always a hard choice, but it's even harder when you have to relinquish a current piece of gear to do it. After about 3 months of deciding whether or not I...

17 April, 2019

5 Frames with an Olympus XA2 – By Filipa Leite Rosa

By filipaleiterosa

About ten years ago my boyfriend offered me a very weird looking camera, an Olympus Xa2. At that time, I had been shooting digital for about three years and was a super-amateur ...

16 April, 2019

NEWS: New Intrepid LF film Cameras & LIT Bluetooth Xenon Flash for your mobile

By Hamish Gill

A couple of little bits of news today from the opposite ends of the world of photography. The first is a new product from Marko Pirc; the chap who brought us the Lumu light mete...

16 April, 2019

5 Frames with My Thrift Store Olympus XA – by Tiffany Perez

By Tiffany Perez

Hello everyone! My name is Tiffany Perez and this is my first post to this site! I am so excited. I am from Southern California, born and raised. This past year has been an adve...

15 April, 2019

Shooting Leica Rangefinder Cameras with Third-Party Lenses is not a Crime!

By Hamish Gill

There’s an odd misconception about the use of Leica cameras that I often get challenged with - especially on social media. As someone who frequently uses 3rd-party lenses on my ...

14 April, 2019

5 Frames with Film Never Die IRO200, a Leica M3, Leica Summicron-M 50mm f/2 – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

On a recent trip to Melbourne, Australia, I decided to drop several of the city’s fine analog photography shops, including Film Never Die store on Bourke Street, a stone’s throw...

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