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28 December, 2024

A Portable Scanner for Free – Another Quick Tip

By Geoff Chaplin

28 December, 2024

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22 May, 2024

5 Frames with a Leica iiic, Summicron 50/2 and Ilford HP5+

By Gary Smith

I started my photographic journey with a high school course and a borrowed Voigtländer. I purchased my first SLR in 1972 (a Canon FTb) and followed that with a Durst enlarg...

22 May, 2024

Some of my thoughts and experiences with Point & Shoots

By David Tan

Living in Japan has been a privilege in many ways – cheap and healthy convenience store meals, decent coffee for a dollar, interesting scenery, and for folks like us ...

21 May, 2024

The Cat and His Boy – A One Shot Story

By Ibraar Hussain

Michifu is our friend and member of the family. He’s a Tom Cat of about 20 months of age so not fully grown yet. He comes and goes as he pleases, spending a lot of time ou...

21 May, 2024

Adapting a Yashinon-DX 45mm f1.7 for a Corfield Periflex

By Stuart Jenkins

I’ve paired this mid-fifties British 35mm camera with a converted lens that is normally fixed onto the front of a Yashica Electro 35 GS rangefinder. Turns out they go toge...

20 May, 2024

Minox CD70 – A Mini-Review on Kentmere 400

By Dave Palumbo

Every time I visit a thrift store, I make a bee line for any cameras or lenses in the hope of finding something interesting. While my luck is rarely any good, my most recent tri...

19 May, 2024

Kyoto, farewell

By Geoff Chaplin

I’ll get to the real reason I took my Sony A7Riii and 85mm lens later, a secondary reason was I had been shooting film for many months, maybe over 50 films, and wanted a ...

18 May, 2024

Looking Back at my First Roll of Film

By Paul Sutton

It was June 2015, the first month of Melbourne’s winter, and I had tired of digital photography. I had bought an entry level Nikon DSLR in January of 2015 as a move up fr...

17 May, 2024

NEWS: Simera 35mm & 28mm F1.4 from Thypoch Arrive For Z, X, E, and RF Mounts

By Molly Kate

The Simera 35mm and 28mm F1.4 lenses from Thypoch are coming for Z, X, E, and RF mounts. Thypoch is a relatively new optics manufacturer based in China but their Simera lenses f...

Michael on Thypoch 50mm 1.4 Simera review – A high spec rangefinder lens!
Appreciate the feedback from someone who also enjoys character lenses. I mainly use a Leica 50mm Summicron (non ASPH) but…
Richard Becker on Zorki 5 & 6 – A Brace of Otherwise Unwanted Cameras
Thank you I find minimum bidding a good way of not getting carried away at auctions. It is far to…
Richard Becker on Zorki 5 & 6 – A Brace of Otherwise Unwanted Cameras
You can never visit too many castles, country houses on the other hand. The earlier the better with Soviet cameras,…

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