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3 November, 2025

Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone

By Bob Janes

3 November, 2025

/ Cosina CX-2, Cosina Point & Shoot, cosina scale focus camera, Olympus Point & Shoot, Olympus Scale Focus Camera, Olympus XA2, Scale Focus Camera, /

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19 January, 2018

The Box Is Back! – The Sunbeams Analogue Photography News – January 19th 2018

By Sunny 16 Podcast

January already seems to be disappearing at an alarming rate but what a start it’s been to 2018! There have been new products, new projects and even a foray into the world of bi...

18 January, 2018

5 Frames with a 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1 – Barnaby Nutt

By Barnaby Nutt

A while back, I wrote a bit about my new 7Artisans, 50mm lens that I'd bought from Hamish and paired with my M6. That first trip out with it involved a wander around Oxford and ...

17 January, 2018

5 (4 underexposed) frames with a Leica M-A and 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1

By Hamish Gill

Ok, I'm cheating, this isn't 5 frames it's 4. But I only took 4, and they make a nice set... These were taken last summer in a bar in Waterloo at a Beers & Cameras meetup with m...

16 January, 2018

Beers & Cameras – Birmingham Meet-up March 24th, 2018 – #BandCBRUM

By Hamish Gill

March 24th 2018 Beers & Cameras is coming to Birmingham I’ve been mulling over bigger meet-up for about 18 months now, but have finally pulled my finger out and decided to g...

16 January, 2018

5 Frames with a 135 adapted Holga – By Lucas H

By Lucas H

I honestly don’t remember when or where I first came across the 35mm Holga adapter. The lime-green spacers had been 3D printed by a friend months previous, quickly relegated to ...

14 January, 2018

Helmut Newton- Pages from the glossies – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

This piece is all about a photography book that I love: “Helmut Newton- Pages from the glossies“ which focuses on his magazine work from 1956 to 1998. It’s a big book, running t...

13 January, 2018

The Contrarian with the Contax – By Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

I am a contrarian. When I was looking to start again in film photography, I knew immediately that I wanted a vintage Contax G2. My goal was to have a camera that was compact eno...

13 January, 2018

Nikon F75 Project – Part 4 – The SLR viewfinder, fundamentally flawed and entirely outdated…?

By Hamish Gill

The biggest issue I have is with the concept of the SLR is the viewfinder. It seems to me that the technology around the SLR viewfinder was flawed from day one, and has now been...

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