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14 July, 2025

Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax

By Ibraar Hussain

14 July, 2025

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16 July, 2024

Controlling the shutter on an automatic Polaroid pack camera

By Jim Skelton

Polaroid pack film cameras are very cool. Sitting somewhere between medium and large format (3″x4″), these cameras took instant peel-apart pictures that looked and f...

15 July, 2024

Chinon CE-4 and Pentax SMC 50mm f1.7 – Think Different

By Ibraar Hussain

This is a review of the Chinon CE4, but first a little background. After Pentax revealed their plan to design and manufacture new Film cameras I had a sudden urge to use a Penta...

14 July, 2024

A Second Outing with the Pentax Auto 110 with Fomapan 400.

By Tony Warren

Encouraged by my recent first experience with the Pentax Auto 110 I tried a second film. This was Fomapan 400 downrated to ISO 100 in Rodinal at 1:50 because the camera has only...

Mamiya C330 with a box of Rollei Infrared film

13 July, 2024

5 Frames with a Mamiya C330 and Rollei Infrared film

By James Billings

It’s only over the past 12 months or so that I’ve rediscovered film photography. Back when I was in college, it was the only option – I’m old enough to pre-date digital &#...

12 July, 2024

Rockmount Ranch Wear – an American Legend

By Joseph Irvin

First of all, a helpful reminder: if you’re wearing cowboy clothing you technically are ranch dressing. Having lived in the yee-haw state of Colorado for the last 15 years...

12 July, 2024

Sony R1 – the Original from 2005 revisited – Sony and APS-C part 1 of 3

By Bob Janes

This is the first of three reviews I’m preparing, looking at Sony’s APS-C camera range spanning 6 years and showing the three separate approaches they took in that time. Two yea...

Canon AE-1 with zoom lens in focus, football pitch in the background

11 July, 2024

5 frames with a Canon AE-1, shooting a professional football (soccer) game

By Francois Marlier

Back in May (2024), a friend invited me to the last home game of the season of our town’s football club, Vejle Boldklub, here in Denmark. This was an important match, sinc...

11 July, 2024

Polaroid Swinger – Modification for use with 120 Film

By Jim Skelton

I’ve always thought of the Polaroid Swinger as a toy camera. Polaroid made and sold millions of them back in the 60’s, thanks to an effective marketing campaign whic...

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davesurrey on Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI
Sorry I mistyped your name, Should have said Andrea. :-(
Tomasz Kowalski on Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI
That's a re-assuring response regarding the wider AI debate - I'm very glad you wrote up the extra note on…
davesurrey on Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI
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