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17 September, 2025

A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power

By Andrea Monti

17 September, 2025

/ Architectural Photography, /

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Is the Revolution Here Again? (I’m really serious about this.)

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19 July, 2024

Rodinal Tests – Temperature, Grain and Contrast

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Rodinal is a high acutance (sharpness) developer. High acutance means grain as well as the image is more clearly defined. So if I develop at different temperatures either the gr...

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Sony a700 from 2007 Revisited – Sony and APS-C part 2 of 3

By Bob Janes

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18 July, 2024

Visiting Algeria with My Olympus XA

By tomodayes

I took a trip back to Algeria to see my grandfather. Packed my faithful Olympus XA. I needed a camera I could easily hide for some street shots. Wikipedia moment: Algeria, the b...

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Minolta AL-F – Getting to know ALF

By Paul Quellin

Minolta; you might love the brand, or take the view their products were inferior. I know camera branding can elicit these responses. It was a long time ago, but in my late teens...

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17 July, 2024

5 Frames with ‘a’ Kodak Autographic № 3.

By Richard Becker

To be accurate this is bending the rules somewhat for ‘5 Frames With’ as although there are only 5 frames also involved are: 2 Kodak Autographic № 3 cameras 3 photographers 2 di...

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Gioacchino Artesiano Pagliuca on A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power
If we then add the roundabouts, which are seen in the foreground, intersected by a road, we reach the maximum...!!!
Marco C on Battle of the Budgets Continued… Fomapan 200 & Kentmere 200 (35mm)
Very interesting read Simon, thanks for the comparison! I'm now even more curious about kentmere 200. And for foma 200,…
Geoff Chaplin on Battle of the Budgets Continued… Fomapan 200 & Kentmere 200 (35mm)
A very nice comparison and many excellent images as always. I was surprised by the halation on Kentmere - one…

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