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14 August, 2024

How Hercule Poirot Helped Me to Find a 6×6, or is the Voigländer Perkeo the Moka Pot of Cameras – A One Shot Story

By Jukka Reimola

My wife is an ardent fan of Hercule Poirot stories. Especially the TV-series kind, starred by Sir David Suchet. Some time ago she was wondering, whether the Poirot series could ...

14 August, 2024

5 Frames in Old San Juan On a Mamiya 6 with Fujichrome

By Tyler Montgomery

Since getting back into film, photography has become a focal point of my travels, even when it’s simply to document the mundane. Unlike the bottomless nature of digital p...

13 August, 2024

Father, Son and a Texas Star – A One Shot Story

By Cameron Kilpatrick

After moving to Austin Texas in 2018 from Toronto Canada, I was eager to get out and shoot some film. I had come back to shooting film again from a decade or so of pray and spra...

13 August, 2024

Shooting Sheet film in a Polaroid Pack Camera

By Jim Skelton

My stash of Polaroid pack film was running low when I realized that all of my Polaroid pack cameras would be film orphans soon unless someone started producing pack film again. ...

12 August, 2024

The Camera that Launched my Career… and Nearly Devastated me.

By Jeffery Luhn

I’m talking about the EXA 1-A, my first ‘grown-up’ camera. Don’t confuse this model with classic Exacta cameras with leaf or focal plane shutters. Th...

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...

Eagle Omomuro on A Blurred Journey – Through Nikon EM and Holga Lens
Hi Erik, Thank you for your kind words. It means a lot to me that you took the time to…
Eagle Omomuro on A Blurred Journey – Through Nikon EM and Holga Lens
Hi Shubroto, Thank you for sharing your experience with the EM. Looking back, I realize I didn’t take the EM…
Eagle Omomuro on A Blurred Journey – Through Nikon EM and Holga Lens
Hi Gary, Thank you for your thoughtful message. I'm glad the mood came through in both the story and the…

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