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18 September, 2025

Nicéphores window – A One Shot Story

By thorsten

18 September, 2025

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20 September, 2024

Free Fuji Neopan 400 for a good cause – and some for sale too!

By Hamish Gill

Once in a while, I receive a message from someone wishing to donate either money or a camera to the website. It’s not a common occurrence, and often comes from a regular reader ...

20 September, 2024

5 frames with a Canon EOS IX7 APS camera

By Flashknappen

I am happy to be able to share these rather timeless colour photos. The subject matter is close to my heart because of family history and early memories from sailing with my fam...

20 September, 2024

35mm Film Pot Pinhole Camera

By Robert Willox

I recently started following a friend of a friend on Instagram, who posts his black & white images fairly regularly and decided I should really be doing something similar as...

19 September, 2024

A DIY 35mm Film Stripper

By Tony Warren

A device for producing a 16mm strip from 35mm.

19 September, 2024

Kodak 66 II – a refreshingly simple 6×6 folding camera

By Julian Tanase

Back in 2000, when I was making some feeble attempts to return to medium format, I had a few choices regarding cameras suitable for me. Obviously, one of the best was the Rollei...

18 September, 2024

5 Frames with a Retinette 1B and Lomochrome Metropolis – Patina at Lullingstone Castle

By Peter Roberts

Situated in the Darenth Valley in north-west Kent Lullingstone Castle is a rare survivor, a manor house and grounds that have remained in the same family for centuries, since 14...

18 September, 2024

Chinon Auto 3501 – Ugly, Noisy and Quite Capable

By Keith Drysdale

A Lucky Find in a Antiques Shop It is rare for us to be able to get away for a few days break, but we managed to escape to Moffat in South West Scotland and to record the occasi...

17 September, 2024

The Director – A One Shot Story

By John Greene

Back in 1988 I was trying out my new Mamiya C330s TLR camera loaded with Ilford XP1 film at the Pier Head in Liverpool. I stumbled across a film crew on the roof terrace of a bu...

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