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5 July, 2025

Kentmere and I – Musings on recent film choices

By Paul Quellin

5 July, 2025

/ Kentmere 100, Kentmere Film, /

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10 March, 2025

5 frames with a borrowed Konica IIIa

By Hamish Gill

Sometime last year I borrowed a Konica IIIa off Rob Hawthorn. The plan was to shoot a few rolls and review it. He assured me it was an awesome camera with a great lens and viewf...

10 March, 2025

Contax G2 – The Most Advanced Rangefinder

By Simon King

Following a reasonably painful wrist injury in early 2024, compounded by three of my film Leica M’s being away for repair, I have been using a Contax G2 as my primary came...

9 March, 2025

5 Frames with Kodak Portra 400 in a Pentax 67

By Scott Micciche

These photographs were captured by me in Carmel, California for my sister’s wedding. Development was done by thedarkroom.com but I scanned all of these on a Nikon Coolscan 8000 ...

8 March, 2025

Selling Italian Ice in Boston – A One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

Sales culture is one of the most distinctive traits of American anthropology. The foundations of modern marketing strategies date back to forerunners such as P.T. Barnum’s...

8 March, 2025

Maniototo Skies

By Logan Mortimer

The Maniototo is a wide open plain in the South Island of New Zealand. It sits at the same latitude as Queenstown, and is half way from there to the eastern coast of the island....

7 March, 2025

Marilyn Monroe in Banff – A Zero Shot Story

By Scott Ferguson

This story is for all the great photos we miss when we don’t have our cameras with us… Marilyn Monroe had an outsize presence in my childhood growing up in Pittsburg...

7 March, 2025

Bergger PMK Pyro B&W developer Review

By Geoff Chaplin

Pyrogallol (pyro): white crystals which oxidise quickly turning brown. Cautions for using the raw powder are extensive – I used to handle raw chemicals but now, for some reason,...

6 March, 2025

Sting of the Vespa – A One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

Vespa, in Italian, is not only the name of the stingy and frightening wasp. The word also identifies one of the world’s most famous examples of industrial design, dating b...

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