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17 October, 2025
Voigtlander VF 135 – A Very Small Review
I must confess, right from the beginning, that for the last 40 years or so, if not even longer, I have been a rangefinder user only; I stopped using SLR cameras, and quite an ex...
16 October, 2025
The Rover returns – A one shot story
As an impressionable thirteen year old, the new Rover P6 3500 S driven by Dave, one of my snorkelling instructors, had me transfixed. The smart Rover ferried a few of us to a lo...
16 October, 2025
Cinevilla in Black and White: Shooting the Nikon FE2, 28mm f/2.8 AIS, and Kodak 400TX in Latvia’s open-air film studio
Photography as an art form has been around since 1826 or 1827. Nicephore Niépce used heliography with a pewter plate coated in bitumen. The development process took around 8 hou...
16 October, 2025
5 Frames with Kentmere 400 along Portugal’s coastline
There was definitely a time where I thought I needed the right camera to make photographs at my highest potential. Piggybacking off my last ‘5 frames’ article, where I suggeste...
15 October, 2025
Adox HR-50 and PanF in PMK Pyro
The launch of Leica Monopan 50 prompted me to buy the Adox HR-50 (the same film) and give it a try. Recommended ASA and developing time in PMK is not given so I decided to expos...
15 October, 2025
Was it to be my last ever click of a shutter?… With a Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7 50mm f2.8 Macro and Rollei Retro 80s.
My Instagram I took these, all from a roll of Rollei Retro 80s developed in Rodinal, back in 2017. It was a time when I was left with just one SLR; a Minolta Maxxum 7 and one le...
14 October, 2025
One By Four – A One Shot Story Told by Four Photographers – Part 2
This is my contribution to the “One by Four” series that began with Scott Fergusson’s post four days before this one. You can see Scott’s post here. To r...
14 October, 2025
Saying Goodbye To Some Old Cameras
Recently, I dusted my cameras and almost got buried in a camera avalanche as some of the neck straps got tangled on the shelf. In the narrow escape, I noticed that some of the c...
