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6 February, 2025

Finding the Best 126 Cartridge Camera – Part I

By Chris Davenport

6 February, 2025

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An evening of abusing the Leica M8 in low light

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If you follow this blog, you might recognise Tom (in the foreground above). He’s one of the unfortunate people I know who frequently has me pointing a camera in his face.&...

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I visited the photography show today, I go every year though when I get there I’m never quite sure I’ve done the right thing. I’m not really the biggest fan of...

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By Hamish Gill

It's an interesting camera the Zeiss Ikon ZM. They seem to garner a level of approval that's often vocalised in broad sweeping terms such as "better than a Leica". Yet despite t...

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Svema former USSR Bulk Film – by Eric ‘kAAs’ Sluis

By Eric 'Kaas' Sluis

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17 March, 2016

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By Rob MacKillop

Ilford SFX is an extended red sensitivity black and white film, which I had used once before through a medium-format camera. I liked it very much, though it proved expensive for...

13 March, 2016

First (digital) colour photos from the MS-optics converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar

By Hamish Gill

A very quick follow up post to todays early post containing my first colour shots from my MS-Optical converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar. After I posted those shots, I was ask...

13 March, 2016

First colour photos from the MS-optics converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar

By Hamish Gill

In the last part of this story I introduced you to my MS-Optical Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar (I really need to find this thing a shorter name). Since then I’ve s...

Christian on Finding the Best 126 Cartridge Camera – Part I
Interesting insights into the world of these cameras. My dad has a lot of these cheap instamatics laying around, and…
Keith Drysdale on Finding the Best 126 Cartridge Camera – Part I
I think the Kodak Instamatic, with the self contained 126 cartridges, is the camera that made people realise that every…
Bob Janes on Finding the Best 126 Cartridge Camera – Part I
Strangely I was recently looking to experiment with a 126 - while nostalgia would have led me towards an Ilford…

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