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15 September, 2025

5 Frames to Overcome My Fear of Flying (With Film)

By Gordon Ownby

15 September, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak T-max 100, /

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27 December, 2017

5 frames with a Leica M3 & Zeiss 50mm Sonnar

By Hamish Gill

Last year as part of a mini documentary project we were working on at work for Duncan Fearnley, me and my video guy at work James drove 200 miles (each way) to visit a company c...

26 December, 2017

5 frames with a Yashica Minister II – by Malcolm

By Malcolm Barron

While on a family holiday in Cornwall in the 1970s, I saw a Yashica Electro 35 rangefinder in a camera shop window. Needless to say, my parents were not persuaded to buy it for ...

25 December, 2017

5 Frames with a Canon F1 with a 55mm f/1.2 – James Greenoff

By James Greenoff-Cairns

My Canon F1 came to me just after I’d committed to no more cameras. I have about six or seven good cameras working in a rotation and for the most part I’m an SLR shooter, (I hav...

24 December, 2017

Nikon F75 Project – Part 3 – Kodak Portra 800 & Two competing brains at the Christmas Fayre

By Hamish Gill

I talked around the way I think differently with different cameras in my hands in my post about the Lure of the Uncomplicated camera. How the Nikon F75 impacted on my thought pr...

21 December, 2017

Nikon F75 Project – Part 2 – revelling in the 50mm point & shoot experience

By Hamish Gill

The one feature I’ve always desired from a compact camera is a 50mm lens. I would estimate that around 75% of my photography is shot with a normal focal length. This is actually...

21 December, 2017

5 frames with a Ferrania Condor II – Francesco Melis

By Francesco Melis

The 1952 Ferrania Condor II rangefinder camera, alongside with some famous and well sought-after postwar productions, is normally considered a Leica copy, although it shows many...

19 December, 2017

5 frames with a Pentax Espio 35-70 AF Zoom – By James Cockroft

By James Cockroft

Pentax made loads of Espio cameras. You can find different versions all over. The 35-70 AF Zoom is one of the bigger, clunkier ones, and it does all kinds of things, like double...

17 December, 2017

7Artisans 50mm f1.1 – The Everyman’s Noctilux? – Guest Review by Mehrdad Abedi

By Mehrdad Abedi

When I first looked at the 7Artisans 5mm f/1.1 specs I asked myself if this could be a kind of 'everyman’s Noctilux'. But hand in hand with this question comes the scepticism. I...

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