2 July, 2020
Some photos and thoughts on Graffiti – By Rock
I was recently looking back through some of my photographs from the last few years and noticed that every now and then an image of graffiti would pop up in a roll. It seems that...
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20 June, 2020
A look back at a Return to Photography and Discovering Shooting Legacy Lenses – By Rock
When I returned to photography as a hobby after a fifteen year lay-off, my newly acquired camera was digital; it never occurred to me to look into film again. I did lots of rese...
28 May, 2020
5 Frames with an AGFA Isolette – By Rock
In an April post, I bemoaned the lack of use of my Pentax 6x7 set-up. Whilst an amazing camera with wonderful optics, I drew particular attention to the fact the images produced...
In photographic terms, digital is still very new. So perhaps it seems a little odd to talk about digital cameras as being either 'vintage' or a 'classic'. But then, digital phot...
15 May, 2020
24 Frames / The Whole Roll of Expired Gold 200 in an Agfamatic 200 – #FullRollFriday – by Rock
As soon as I saw the post by Jeremy Strange on April 3rd, I thought what a great idea - a whole roll of photographs to look at. After all, it is all about seeing other peoples' ...
23 April, 2020
5 Frames with Rollei Retro 100 Or Agfa APX 100 – By Rock
So this post is in response to Daniel Sigg's fab review 'Experiements With Three Rollei 135 Film Stock' of February 26th. Daniel looked at three b/w films from Rollei i.e RPX100...
So I bought a Pentax 6x7 in May 2018. That was the year I felt it was time to be more serious with my photography and that meant a serious medium format set-up. Abandoning digit...
29 February, 2020
Praktica L Rievew – A Yearning for this old Line of SLRS – By Rock
As a 15 year old I got my first ever SLR for a Christmas present. It was a Soviet made Zenit and served me well for a while. When I opted for 'A' Level Photography at school, I ...