Category: All Reviews
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Gear review: the Peak Design Cuff
You might remember this review of the latest Peak Design Slide Lite from a few weeks back. Well, now it’s time for its little brother to get some of the spotlight.
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Camera review: Impossible I-1
Up until the recent release of the One Step 2, the Impossible I-1 was the first new Polaroid camera in how long? From the reviews I read, it received a strange welcome into the world of instant photography.
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Every single film stock still made today – Part 1: ADOX to Dubblefilm (v3)
Update 02: 2018-09-20 If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably wondered how many fresh film stocks are still in production and available for purchase today.
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Camera Review: Steky Spy Camera Model IIIb
I’ve had this Steky camera (2 of them actually) in my collection for a while now. I only take them out during show and tell, and always…
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Review: Kodak Film Strip Creator
One of the really neat things seen at the Kodak booth during the 2018 CES show in Las Vegas was a lightbox featuring customized strips of 35mm film.
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Medium format first timer: Kodak 120 film and the Hasselblad 500C/M
I’ve wanted to get into the medium format aspect of photography for some time now but the timing aspect hasn’t really been there if I’m honest, that was up until now. I’ve admired several medium format cameras from afar but
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The Hasselblad V-System master guide: film magazines, instant and sheet film backs
Part one of this collection covered an in-depth overview of the Hasselblad V-System. This section of the guide covers roll film, instant and sheet film backs (designated by Hasselblad as “magazines”).
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Film review: Rollei Retro 400S aka Street Shooting with Rollei Retro 400S
I think I just fell in love with Rollei Retro 400S…. Here’s how it happened.
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Gear review: the Peak Design Slide Lite (v2)
At the end of 2017 the folks over at Peak Design were kind enough to send me the latest version (v2) of their Slide Lite camera strap to try out.
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Film review: Lomography Color Negative 400 in 120 format
I noticed a 3 roll box of 120 Lomography Color Negative 400 film in my local Boots Pharmacist some time ago.
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Camera review: the Holga 135BC
When I was writing my eBook on the Holga cameras, I made the assumption that I would be covering as many Holga models as I could get my hands on—medium format Holgas, that is.
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Blind film review #01: Fuji Natura 1600 vs Kodak Portra 800 vs Lomography Color Negative 800 (35mm)
At the end of 2017 I mentioned to Aislinn Chuahiock that I’d received some 35mm Kodak Portra 800 to test out and was planning on pitting it against Lomography’s Color Negative 800 in a side-by-side review. In her infinite wisdom
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The Hasselblad V-System master guide: Overview
The Hasselblad V-System Master Guide is a hub of in-depth articles and reviews intended to be an exhaustive resource for real, user-verified data on this classic film camera system.
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Camera review: Mamiya RB67 Pro-S, Scott McClarin
What you see below is my Mamiya Sekor RB67 Pro S, the camera I’m reviewing today.
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Scanner review: OpticFilm 8200i SE 35mm film scanner
When I was fifteen I wanted a Nikon FM. A couple of months ago, some forty years later, I finally bought one – actually an FM2n, but close enough.
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Camera review: Canon EOS-1
I brought the Canon EOS-1 a couple of years ago and among all of the cameras that I have had and have been able to use up until now, it is still my favorite in the original analogue EOS
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Camera review: Bronica SQ-Ai
Just a few months ago, I was happily shooting digital. But my work was lacking something. Soul, perhaps.
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Double review: Voigtlander Vito B & Apparate & Kamerabau Akarette II
This review consists of a comparison between my experience of using two seemingly very similar cameras, the Apparate &
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Camera review: Zenza Bronica ETRSi
Today I’m going to be talking a little about my Bronica ETRSi kit, a camera I came to after my first proper step into film photography with a Bronica ETRC (I discount my Holga for obvious reasons, although I had
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Film review: Film Washi S 50 ISO (35mm) black and white negative film
The film cassette label states that the S stands for Sound Recording Film. I wondered how a film designed for making movie sound tracks would fare in conventional photography.