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30 November, 2019

5 Frames with the Yashica 635 and Kodak Portra 400 – By Lee Butterley

By Utterlee

I’ve had my Yashica-635 twin lens reflex camera for 20 years, my parents found it for me at a car boot sale. I’ve not used it that much, and until last month I’d never even put ...

29 November, 2019

The Alchemy of Film Photography – finding my perfect formula – by Joseph Tan

By josephtwx

You are reeling your film into the developing tank for the first time, but somehow the film got stuck. In complete darkness, it’s difficult to tell what’s wrong. It&...

28 November, 2019

5 Frames with Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 II, Minolta CLE & Leica Summicron-C 40mm f/2 – Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

Neopan Acros 100 had always been one of my favourite film stocks, right up until it was discontinued about two years ago. Acros 100 was contrasty, rendering rich blacks and acce...

28 November, 2019

5 Frames Skiing with a Zeiss Ikon Nettar – Andy Larner

By Andy Larner

I found my perfect Ski camera. It's light, small and great for Landscapes oh by the way it's a medium format 6x6 folding bellows camera from the 1950's. Obviously! The camera ta...

27 November, 2019

Olympus OM-2n – My First SLR Film Camera Review – Ivan Studynskyi

By Ivan Studynskyi

My first experience with film started when my friend let me take some photos with her camera, one of which just struck me (to this day I think it is one of the best photos I hav...

26 November, 2019

Nikon FE Review – Returning to Film with a Fun, Compact, Affordable and Easy SLR – By Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

My father was a documentary photographer and shot a Leica in the 1950s and 60s. He photographed my brother and me all the time when we were growing up in Switzerland, mainly wit...

25 November, 2019

Pentax-M 40mm f/2.8 and Pentax MX – imperfect, but pocketable!

By Hamish Gill

In my recent Pentax MX review I touched on the fact that I’d only really been shooting it with the 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens. This is a lens that seems to divide opinion a little ...

24 November, 2019

5 Frames With the runt of the litter: The Olympus XA1 – Brian Nicholls

By MrSnappy

The Olympus XA1 was ntroduced in 1982. This little gem of a clamshell 35mm compact was the simplest and cheapest of the XA series. It has a fixed-focus f/4 to f/22 x 4 element Z...

Eagle Omomuro on A Blurred Journey – Through Nikon EM and Holga Lens
Hi Erik, Thank you for your kind words. It means a lot to me that you took the time to…
Eagle Omomuro on A Blurred Journey – Through Nikon EM and Holga Lens
Hi Shubroto, Thank you for sharing your experience with the EM. Looking back, I realize I didn’t take the EM…
Eagle Omomuro on A Blurred Journey – Through Nikon EM and Holga Lens
Hi Gary, Thank you for your thoughtful message. I'm glad the mood came through in both the story and the…

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