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25 November, 2024

Join me and the photography community on Bluesky

By Hamish Gill

25 November, 2024

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Just a note to say that I, like many people, have finally completely ditched Twitter in favour of Bluesky. I joined Bluesky sometime ago now, but whilst it was in its testing phase it was a little quiet. Now it’s open for anyone to join any ...

25 November, 2024

5 Frames with a Vivitar 70-210 f/3.5

By Sebastian Shields

25 November, 2024

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Cheap zoom lenses have never had a great reputation. Especially in the Digital age, some budget zooms are considered a bit of a plague. Cheap, plasticky, and very poor optically. To many, a budget zoom is a small step above the kit lens and is for...

Color photo of a Konica Pearl III medium format folding camera.

25 November, 2024

Konica Pearl III Medium Format Folder – Review and Street Shots from NYC

By Chad Gayle

25 November, 2024

/ Konica Medium Format Camera, Konica Pearl III, Medium Format Camera, Medium Format Folder, /

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As much as I love film, I’ve always had a love / hate relationship with medium format. Spoiled by the speed of 35mm’s fast lenses and the liberal largesse of 4×5 and 5×7 large format negatives, medium format has always seemed to me to be...

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21 November, 2023

BERGGER Pancro 400 – Small Scenes Up a Mountain in Seoul

By Graeme Hamilton

The metropolis of Seoul spills through the valleys of the surrounding mountain peaks. The effect is that of a spider-webbing lake of brick, glass and steel punctuated by dark up...

20 November, 2023

NEWS: TTArtisan Releases APS-C 35mm F1.8 Autofocus Lens for Fujifilm X, Sony E, and Nikon Z Mount

By Molly Kate

TTArtisan has released a new autofocus 35mm F1.8 APS-C Fujifilm X-Mount lens. This lens is also coming to Sony E and Nikon Z mount users but at a later date. For now, X-Mount ow...

20 November, 2023

Great Wall DF4 / Export – The beauty of simplicity.

By sklba

While the wizardry of modern cameras has reduced a once mighty concept to little more than a phone option variance, there’s something to be said about stepping away from ...

19 November, 2023

ROUND-UP: Camera Reviews from the Film Photography Blogosphere

By Molly Kate

We’d like to bring you a new kind of post today, a round-up of all the latest camera reviews from known bloggers in the film photography community. Each of these film blo...

19 November, 2023

Website issue: Emails not working

By Hamish Gill

Just a note, if you receive email updates from the website, you might notice they are currently a little flakey. A lot of people have reported that when they click the link in t...

19 November, 2023

5 frames with a Kodak Retinette type 030 Found in a Junk Shop

By Paul Quellin

A great little junk shop, so full, there could be treasures you would never spot. On the floor a box full of old cameras and accessories caught the eye. There were a few that di...

18 November, 2023

10 Frames from a Tour by Bicycle around New Haven

By shawn granton

New Haven, Connecticut is best known these days for Yale University, one of the world’s most prestigious higher learning institutions. For some, Yale equals New Haven. Bu...

17 November, 2023

For Sale: A Load of my Personal Collection

By Hamish Gill

I have just listed a load of my cameras and lenses for sale on the “shop” here. For some reason, the payment features aren’t working, so just drop me an email ...

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