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20 November, 2025

5 Frames with a Braun Super Paxette using Dragon No.1 film

By Alastair Bell

20 November, 2025

/ braun Rangefinder, Braun Super Paxette, rangefinder camera, /

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4 November, 2025

5 Frames with Royalty at a Food Festival

By Richard Becker

I took a German/Italian Countess to a food festival the other week thinking it was the sort of outing she might enjoy, local artisan food producers along with some art and craft...

Motorway bridge over the River Exe and Exeter Ship Canal

4 November, 2025

The Motorway Bridge – A One Shot Story

By Ed

This photograph shows the underside of the motorway bridge that crosses the head of the Exe Estuary. I regularly cycle or walk under this bridge. It’s an impressive struct...

4 November, 2025

Samsung Digimax L85 (and How It Replaced a Sigma DP2s)

By Ed

During the summer I bought a Foveon-based camera, the Sigma DP2s. The DP2s was released in 2010, a minor update to the DP2. I’d always wanted to try a Foveon camera and I ...

3 November, 2025

5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too

By Chris Giles

A while back I picked up a job lot of three cameras for not much money. The one I was after was a Konica C35 EF – which did prove to be exactly what I wanted, but that is ...

3 November, 2025

Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone

By Bob Janes

Miniature cameras have long been a ‘thing’ in photography. The original Leica was designed as a miniature camera, using a comparatively small cinema stock. Subminature formats w...

2 November, 2025

My (Brief) Life as a Documentary Photographer

By Jeremy Rata

I have always been a documentary photographer, just not a paid one. That all changed in 2010, I was commissioned by a man called John Casson whom I had met at a dinner party I w...

2 November, 2025

Planar. Ektar. Fotograflar. Istanbul… In 5 Frames

By Omar Tibi

Cue the Sertab Erener song. How do you tell a story about a city bigger than many countries, in just 5 images? This was the question I was grappling with when trying to write th...

1 November, 2025

Mount Cook and the Glaciers, 1893

By Logan Mortimer

In February 1893 George Moodie set off from Dunedin, a city on the south east coast of New Zealand, to Mount Cook. He was on a photographic trip on behalf of the Burton Brothers...

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