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Swiss Roll: There’s life in the old Kuchen yet

Feature Articles Mike Evans -
The intriguing story of the Swiss Roll, the long-lost Leica negatives brought back to life after 74 years, continues to mystify. Here is an update on an unsolved mystery...

Swiss Roll: The podcast—with William Fagan

News Mike Evans -
You've seen the pictures, you've wonderered about the identify of the mystery couple in 1950s Switzerland and Northern Italy. Now it's time for the podcast: William Fagan talks about his discovery of these wonderful photographs and the search for the two people captured on an old Leica seventy years ago.

Swiss Roll: The facts of the 70-year-old photo mystery as we now know them

Film William Fagan -
The story of the Leica film undeveloped for 70 year has caught the world's imagination. William Fagan now analyses the roll, frame by frame and tells us what he now knows about the people and the locations.

Swiss Roll: These 70-year-old snaps now have a worldwide audience. The hunt is on

Leica Mike Evans -
William's photographs developed after 70 years have created worldwide interest. Who are these people who seemed to have enjoyed such a blissful holiday in Switzerland and Italy in the early 1950s? Why did they take such good pictures and then not develop the film? The mystery grows and it has been covered in media throughout the world...

Swiss Roll: Latest update on our 70-year-old mystery film

Travel Mike Evans -
William Fagan's resurrected photographs found in an old camera have attracted world-wide attention. Who were the who people (and a dachshund) who set out from Zurich to drive to northern Italy in the Spring of 1951? The search continues...

Macfilos is just a hobby? Not this week, thanks to the Swiss Roll

Leica Mike Evans -
Mystery photographs from 70 years ago: Left in a camera, undeveloped. Thanks to the BBC and an army of volunteers throughout Europe, we are homing in on the identity of the Munich couple and their dog...

Our Swiss Roll mystery photo hunt featured on BBC

Film Mike Evans -
William Fagan's mystery roll of Leica film which featured in our Swiss roll feature on September 11, has been...

Swiss Roll: Hidden for 70 years, these photographs were recovered from an ancient Leica film cassette

Film William Fagan -
I roll of 35mm film exposed two generations ago in Switzerland and Italy. It has remained undeveloped through the decades and now provides a unique and poignant record or a vacation by an unknown family. We would like to get in touch and returned their unseen holiday snaps...

The Mystery Roll: Club Color 200 negative film, 22 years after expiry

Film Joerg-Peter Rau -
22 years after expiry date, we discovered a neglected Club Color 200 film. There was nothing for it: We dug out our Olympus OM-4 Ti and exposed this mystery roll. What would the results be like 22 years after shelf-life was over?

Orient Express from Istanbul to the Swiss Alps, a photographic journey

Feature Articles John Shingleton -

The recent Macfilos story on the Swiss alpine railways bought back memories for me of a quite remarkable railway journey I made in October 1982. It was in an Orient Express reenactment from Istanbul to Interlaken in Switzerland. We travelled in a train using the original Orient Express rolling stock and pulled for much of the journey by steam locomotives. As I recollect, at that time the carriages were owned by a Swiss railway enthusiast who also ran a travel company.

Apple Watch: Still holding out after two weeks, Swiss delight still in bottom drawer

Apple Mike Evans -

The new steel-and-sportsband Apple Watch has been on my wrist for two weeks and I like it nearly as much as I thought I would. The previous bit of crack, my beautiful IWC Pilot’s Chronograph, has been in a drawer and, if I am honest, I don’t know when I will next take it out.

Joining the team: How to become a Macfilos author

Opinion Mike Evans -
Why not become a Macfilos author and create a worldwide audience for your photographs, your views on photography and equipment. It's easy, here's how...
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Istanbul: An odyssey through chaos, carpets, and call to prayer with a Leica Q-P

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Leica LUX Grip: The company heads further into the world of iPhone photography

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