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2 December, 2025

Holga Wide, Fisheye and Telephoto Slide-On – A Comparison of Auxiliary Lenses

By Neal Wellons

2 December, 2025

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By Nathan Sherwood

My girlfriend has been living with me in the UK for the past five years, and in a few months’ time we plan to move permanently to France. While she’s been here I haven’t m...

30 June, 2025

Fujifilm X100VI – One Camera and 1½ Lenses for Travel – with a Pocket of Light

By Paul Chance

Let’s be honest: travel photography gear can easily get out of hand. I’ve started trips with the best minimalist intentions, only to end up juggling three bodies, five lenses, t...

29 June, 2025

Analogue (and analogue inspired) News and Tittle-Tattle – Newsletter July 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

Welcome to the July Analogue (and analogue inspired) News and Tittle-Tattle. I hope everyone is having a lovely Summer, Mid-summer has come and gone and how time flies? It’...

29 June, 2025

Kentmere Pan 200 and a Contax 137 MA Quartz/ZEISS 50mm f/1.7

By Eric

I honestly do not know what possessed me to buy this film. While I shoot a number of film speeds my usual go to is 400. Other less often but I usually stay between 100 and 800. ...

28 June, 2025

5 Frames with a Contax ST and Fujichrome Provia 100 at The Jurassic Coast

By Ibraar Hussain

(Title Picture: Man’O’War Cove. Dorset) I really like the Jurassic Coast which is part of the South Western Coast of England. It is a 95-mile stretch of shoreline in...

The design and finish of these 3D printed developing reels is excellent

28 June, 2025

Ausgeknipst Reels – Developing 16mm (or 110) in the Paterson tank

By Andrew Long

I’ve been disappearing down a 16mm wide rabbit hole recently. It all began with buying a Minolta 16 II on a whim (it was shiny …) from Soper Photographic, Plymouth, UK in Plymou...

27 June, 2025

Polishing a Turd Trying To Save It in the Edit

By Max Tiraquon

What could I possibly encounter in a graveyard that would require use of a “Tough” camera ghosts’n goblins, of course not I went during the daytime so just be some crackheads th...

27 June, 2025

Contax TVS I, TVS II, TVS III and T2 Kung Fu mash up – who wins? Which should you choose?

By Ibraar Hussain

A comparison of the Photographs taken with each of these four cameras and any differences between the results. Should you get yourself a cheap (ish) lowly TVS or go all in and b...

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