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5 September, 2024

Early Auto Exposure – Three Different Approaches

By Tony Warren

When my original plans for the Agfa Selecta M I bought a little impulsively recently were clearly not going to happen, the camera type in general began to interest me. I already...

4 September, 2024

When Kitsch Becomes Collectible

By Dave Powell

I just experienced huge culture shock about that thing up there. During the 1980s and early ‘90s, I was a computer-networking journalist and editor for publications like ...

4 September, 2024

Returning to home developing – an expired roll of FP4 and perhaps a Pen EE

By Michael Zwicky-Ross

Ibraar Hussain recently posted a review of a Chinon CE-4 and his experiences with it which I found very interesting. So interesting that a few days later a house-clearance, unte...

Mystery painting and its novel signature

3 September, 2024

That Time I Played Art Detective — One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Sometimes, the world is indeed small. In 2015, Kate and I moved from a 1,700-square-foot Cape-style house to a 2,700 square-foot retirement condo with exceedingly high cathedral...

3 September, 2024

My Asylum Years

By John Greene

Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was q...

2 September, 2024

Zhiyun Molus G300 Review – Incredibly Compact and Bright LED Light

By Sroyon

If you’re into videography, you most likely know of Zhiyun, a Chinese company which makes a range of very popular gimbals. Zhiyun also make lights, and while I suspect the...

1 September, 2024

5 Frames with a Hasselblad 501 C – ZEISS 80mm f/2.8 and Kodak Gold 200 – By Eric L. Woods

By Eric

Quite a few years ago a kind co-worker basically gave me this Hasselblad 501c at the price I paid. And from the first roll I was hooked. I heard someone say in a video recently ...

31 August, 2024

5 Frames with Three Cameras in the Woods

By CHRISTOF RAMPITSCH

For this 5 Frames, we’re going to a small suburban forest with mostly Aspen and Oak trees and lots of paths. Athough there are loads of birds and other animals there, I c...

Gary Smith on 5 frames with Ilford SFX
I had the conversion done by Kolari.
Michael Keppler on 5 frames with Ilford SFX
Many thanks Gary, I'm glad you like the pictures. Converting a camera for infrared images sounds a bit like experimenting…
David Hume on Oxford Museums with a Leica M9 and an Omnar Birthday Present
Lovely post Hamish - which brings up a lot of meandering thoughts of my own... Firstly; that museum! I love…

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