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5 Frames with the Ricoh 500 ME – What Grain Does.

Shafiur Rahman — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:00:33 +0000

I took these photographs at two very different moments. The first were made on the Norfolk coast. I was very unwell at the time. The trip was meant to get me out of the house, to shift the mood, to interrupt the routine of hospitals and waiting. I carried the Ricoh 500 ME, without much...

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Analogue Wonderland Launches the PURE35 Reloadable 35mm Film Camera as a UK exclusive with Kodak Moments

Hamish Gill — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:00:25 +0000

My mates at Analogue Wonderland have just announced a reloadable 35mm film camera, the PURE35. I haven’t tried the camera myself yet, but reading the press info, the gist is that it’s a very simple, some might say “pure” point and shoot film camera. The word “reloadable” in the description refers to the fact that...

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Alfie [BOXX] Mini-Review – A Wonderful and Truly Analogue Experience – Launched Today on Kickstarter!

Hamish Gill — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:30:15 +0000

The Alfie [BOXX] has just launched on Kickstarter – you can find the campaign here! I had a wonderfully analogue photography experience a week or so back! Dave Faulkner from Alfie Cameras visited me with his [BOXX] camera to give me a demo and a hands-on go with his near-production prototype. I’m more of a “hybrid”...

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5 Frames Rediscovered

Ron Duda — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:00:44 +0000

It’s not often that I look back at my catalogue of scanned negatives. Typically I’ll shoot a roll of 120 film in a 90 or so minute walk about or if I’m shooting 35mm – perhaps over a couple of days. I’ll develop that film the same day or the next day. When the negatives...

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Voigtländer Bessa R2A – My thoughts after 6 months of use

Gallo — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:00:41 +0000

Just a quick opening note: This article was originally written in French and then translated into English. As a French speaker, it may seem surprising that I chose to write a review of the Bessa R2A on an English-language site, but in reality it is the articles here that inspired me to contribute my modest...

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My Journey into Photographing Performing Musicians

Alexandre Kreisman — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:00:41 +0000

Ever since I was a child, I loved music. I still do. In fact, it is one of my motivators in life, it always boosted me and put me in the right state of mind. The experience of listening to a live performance is very difficult to explain verbally. First, even before the show starts...

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One More “Robert Frank in Butte, Montana” Story

John Bennett — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:00:52 +0000

Not long after my wife, Darby, and I returned from last summer’s Portland-to-St. Louis road trip — which included one night at the Finlen Hotel in Butte — I started thinking how cool it would be to go back to Montana for my birthday in April, and spend a week in the room Robert Frank...

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Above and Beyond – One Shot Story

Nic — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:00:27 +0000

For anyone with an interest in cars and, or, people the Salon Privé at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England makes for an enjoyable day out. This is an annual gathering of some of the most exotic cars in the country held in the grounds of one of England’s finest country estates. Here, a lucky...

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Pairings, pt. 1 — Leica Summarit 50mm f1.5 + Rollei Blackbird

Scott Ferguson — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:00:19 +0000

Inspired by what I learned in the recent “Goldilocks Challenge” comparing my different Leica 50mm lenses, I’ve embarked on an open ended project/rabbit hole of trying out different pairings of lenses with film stocks to find the most interesting/optimal combinations. Ideally I’ll find pairings where the optical qualities of a given lens will match up...

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Canon FD 15mm f/2.8 – Time to go fishing

Eric Rose — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:00:46 +0000

Well not fishing for real fish but fish-eyeing for images. I’ve had this Canon FD 15mm f/2.8 S.S.C. Fisheye MF Manual Lens for years. As you can imagine it’s not the easiest lens to use. The curvature is, well, fish-eyed. Back in my commercial photography days there was a period when fish-eyes were “the thing”. ...

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