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24 October, 2025
Polaroid Go – First Shots, Surprisingly Okay!
I made a terrible mistake at the very start of my month-long U.S. trip this August. I left my X100F at home. Sure, I had a film SLR in my bag, but that meant weeks of waiting be...
23 October, 2025
Purple Rain on 47-year old expired film – The Whole Roll
My dad (Derek, shot #7) is a war baby born in 1941. So, when I found out that there is an annual nearby 1940s weekend in Welshpool that falls on his birthday it was a no-brainer...
23 October, 2025
Nikon F3 at the British Iron Works
Like a lot of film photographers, I suffer with Gas Acquisition Syndrome and as soon as I see a charity shop I am in. Sadly, or maybe gladly to some of us, things ain’t what the...
It’s 2 o’clock and here I am dragging 50 homemade pinholes cameras into Copperwood, Boomtown’s 1920s Hollywood-inspired district. Boomtown is one of the UK’s biggest...
22 October, 2025
5 frames from freezing Margate with a Leica M5
As is the case with many photographers, working a “9-5” office job often leads to the feeling of wanting to get out and explore if the opportunity arises. Sometimes, you have to...
Father Time waits for no one — and that includes film. I was talking with a friend of mine, one of the last camera repairmen in Riga. More about him later — I plan to write an a...
22 October, 2025
New Film Cameras: The Lomography MC-A and SilverBridges WideluxX
Two new film cameras on the horizon, the Lomography MC-A and SilverBridges WideluxX – it’s not often we get one new film camera coming down the road, so with there b...
22 October, 2025
Minolta a-9 – Raspberry Picking in September with a 24mm f2.8, Red 25 Filter and Rollei Retro 80s
It was a lovely day in early September, a month where I’m often filled with anxiety; dreading the coming Winter and the end of the brief days of fine weather of Spring and...
