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25 November, 2024

Join me and the photography community on Bluesky

By Hamish Gill

25 November, 2024

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Just a note to say that I, like many people, have finally completely ditched Twitter in favour of Bluesky. I joined Bluesky sometime ago now, but whilst it was in its testing phase it was a little quiet. Now it’s open for anyone to join any ...

25 November, 2024

5 Frames with a Vivitar 70-210 f/3.5

By Sebastian Shields

25 November, 2024

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Cheap zoom lenses have never had a great reputation. Especially in the Digital age, some budget zooms are considered a bit of a plague. Cheap, plasticky, and very poor optically. To many, a budget zoom is a small step above the kit lens and is for...

Color photo of a Konica Pearl III medium format folding camera.

25 November, 2024

Konica Pearl III Medium Format Folder – Review and Street Shots from NYC

By Chad Gayle

25 November, 2024

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As much as I love film, I’ve always had a love / hate relationship with medium format. Spoiled by the speed of 35mm’s fast lenses and the liberal largesse of 4×5 and 5×7 large format negatives, medium format has always seemed to me to be...

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6 September, 2023

Investigating a 110 cartridge and film for possible re-use.

By Tony Warren

The 110 format has really grabbed my interest despite an initial cool reaction. I now find myself with two more of these cameras thanks to an auction job lot, only one in full w...

5 September, 2023

Rescue and Modification of a Ricoh Auto Half

By Stuart Jenkins

I’ve restored this cute little Japanese half-frame 35mm camera with a metering conversion from selenium to CdS, and the addition of adjustable focus. Here’s the stor...

4 September, 2023

Fujifilm Velvia and My Shallow and Shameless Dumping of Kodachrome

By Simon Foale

I tried out my first ever 35mm roll of Fuji Velvia 50 (‘RVP’) in mid 1990, not very long after it became available in Australia. It totally blew my mind and I was ...

3 September, 2023

The Negative Space – a Portrait of a Local Film Lab

By Joseph Irvin

The last decade and a half have been a rough time for people shooting film, watching Kodak in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, the discontinuation of favorite film stocks, rising prices, ...

2 September, 2023

Fujifilm Neopan SS – My Last Rolls & When Not to Shoot Expired Film

By Azriel Knight

A few years ago, I was gifted a lot of film for a project I was working on which involved shooting a roll a day for two weeks and vlogging my journey. I was mailed so much that ...

1 September, 2023

NEWS: Reto Project Expands Creative Options with the Upgraded 35mm Half-Frame Kodak Ektar H35N

By Molly Kate

The Reto Project has released a new version of their Kodak Ektar H35 half-frame film camera with more features and creative options. The new Kodak Ektar H35N has an upgraded len...

1 September, 2023

SmallRig Free Blazer Review – A decent video tripod for under £400?

By Will Middleton

Hi! Will here, video production manager at F8 Creates (Hamish’s creative agency). SmallRig kindly sent us the full FreeBlazer Heavy-Duty Tripod Kit for us to review and we...

1 September, 2023

5 Frames of Kodachrome 25 and 64 – an unromantic retrospective

By Simon Foale

A recent clean-up in the end room of our house resulted in a pile of junk being removed from on top of my light box, a glorious 1.4m long expanse of slide-viewing luxury made fo...

Jeffery Luhn on Join me and the photography community on Bluesky
Twitter = X = Yuck. Hopefully Bluesky will filter out the dregs. I'll check it out.
Jeffery Luhn on 5 Frames with a Vivitar 70-210 f/3.5
Sebastian, Hmmm, I bought that Vivitar zoom for my Nikon when it first came out and abandoned it in favor…
Jeffery Luhn on Konica Pearl III Medium Format Folder – Review and Street Shots from NYC
Chad, Nice shots! I love folding cameras! They are the Goldilocks size between 35mm and 4x5. My brand of choice…

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