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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

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Gold 200, Pentax K1000, Vivitar 70-210 f/3.5, /

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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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19 September, 2023

Minolta Dynax 9 – The 24 Year Wait for a Camera I had Put to the Back of my Mind

By NotNecessarilyAnalogue

This is perhaps a familiar story to photographers over the age of 40. I started taking pictures in the pre-digital era. The first camera that was my own was a Canon Snappy 20* &...

18 September, 2023

NEWS: Vintage Visual to Launch IndieGoGo Campaign October 3rd for Compact Automated Film Processor

By Molly Kate

A new compact automated processor for home film developers or small labs is coming soon to IndieGoGo. Designed and created by the team from Vintage Visual, the AGO processor hel...

18 September, 2023

Minolta AF50 Big Finder Review – a Wide Angle Compact to Use Close-up

By Iain Paterson

It has a 27mm lens, is truly pocketable and has been recommended by a 35mmc contributor*; I felt compelled to try out the Minolta AF50 Big Finder. It turns out there are at leas...

17 September, 2023

360º Migration – A Video Story

By scottfotodotcom

Migration is a not a new phenomenon. But it comes to our attention regularly. News stories are abundant. From terrible tragedies at sea to local communities going to extraordina...

16 September, 2023

CineStill 400D – A Bittersweet Review

By Azriel Knight

There are a couple of things I should preface before we get underway with my honest opinion regarding CineStill 400D, the latest colour film release by Cinestill. First off, I a...

15 September, 2023

A Hike with Leica IIIC and Fomapan 400

By Julian Tanase

Perhaps you remember that 1940’s Leica IIIC, shown here in a recent article. Well, I managed to avoid using it (unsuccessfully) for several days, but in the end I su...

15 September, 2023

A One Shot Story For Battle Of Britain Day

By Peter Roberts

Cutting a channel through the chalk of the North Downs from its source near Sevenoaks to where it joins the Thames near Dartford is the River Darent. Retaining the river’s...

14 September, 2023

Praktica MTL3 – Back to Film, with a Roll of Expired ‘SupaSnaps’ Film

By Gideon Liddiard

My first SLR was a Praktica MTL3, obtained from an uncle in 1990, it wasn’t my first camera, that would have been a Kodak Disc camera when I was around 10, but it was my f...

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