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22 October, 2025

5 Frames with Expired Soviet Svema ISO 25 at Cinevilla, Tukums, Latvia

By Felix Flores Rodriguez

22 October, 2025

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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 article about his life during the Soviet Union era. For now, let’s retu...

22 October, 2025

New Film Cameras: The Lomography MC-A and SilverBridges WideluxX

By Hamish Gill

22 October, 2025

/ Film Camera News, News, /

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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 being two, I thought I would give a bit of a shout out to them both in ...

22 October, 2025

Minolta a-9 – Raspberry Picking in September with a 24mm f2.8, Red 25 Filter and Rollei Retro 80s

By Ibraar Hussain

22 October, 2025

/ Minolta a-9, Minolta SLR, Rollei Film, Rollei Retro 80 S, SLR Camera, /

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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 Summer, but the Summer still lingered on. The sky was blue, filled wi...

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29 October, 2024

Padua, a photographer’s goldmine

By Andrea Monti

During a few hours off work, I recently had the chance to wander around Padua, one of the many historical jewels that make up Italy’s immense cultural heritage. What makes...

29 October, 2024

What does a perfect camera need?

By Nicholas Kurita Ikai

During the pandemic, I found a Canon Rebel T7 that my father had won through a miles program and never took it out of the box, and I started photographing to kill time. Naturall...

28 October, 2024

5 Frames with a Minolta XGM at Go Your Own Way

By John Andrews

I have a multitude of cameras and lenses, collected over many years, including some left over from my professional photography days, Sadly I sold my Hasselblad 500CM, but kept ...

Dentsu Building

28 October, 2024

TLR Challenge: 2 – The Spirit in the Sky (A One Shot Story)

By Geoff Chaplin

This is a bit of an aside from the general theme of the challenge – equipment, method and composition. Something that just appeared and deserves its own entry. We arrived ...

Tele Rolleiflex Sonnar 135mm f/4

28 October, 2024

Tele Rolleiflex Review – I will not be separated from this camera

By Leon Van Kemenade

It hardly seems possible but I only accepted my Tele Rolleiflex into my life a smidge over one year ago. It feels like much longer. My story is perhaps typical, a digital shoote...

27 October, 2024

Washi E – A Very Peculiar Film

By Neal Wellons

Film Washi is a French company that sources and respools unusual and often unique photographic media on consumer friendly rolls, cassettes, and even in large format. I have hea...

27 October, 2024

5 Frames of Kodak 5219T film with Contax Aria for Cantonese Opera

By David Wu

When it comes to Contax, you can’t talk about the cameras without talking about the optical giant that is Zeiss, and almost all of the photographers who defected to the SL...

26 October, 2024

A walk round Portland, Oregon with a Leica M3 and Voigtländer 21/4 Color-Skopar

By Gary Smith

The city of Portland, Oregon straddles the Willamette River and has 12 bridges from south to north crossing the Willamette before it joins the Columbia River. I thought I’...

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Joel Keller on New Film Cameras: The Lomography MC-A and SilverBridges WideluxX
Love the idea of the WideluxX, but can't imagine paying the US$2-3k it will likely cost. Amazing how Lomography can…
Eagle Omomuro on Minolta a-9 – Raspberry Picking in September with a 24mm f2.8, Red 25 Filter and Rollei Retro 80s
Beautiful work as always, IBRAAR. I especially love the tone in your shots. The Alpha 9 has been my most…
Eagle Omomuro on Pretend Geisha – One Shot Story
Thank you, Leon. I really appreciate your words.

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