2 January, 2024
5 Frames with a Canon EOS 600 in Berlin after many years
What can I say about Berlin? I’ve been there several times over the years, and each time I’ve found a different city. But in this occasion I tried to make a sort of ...
29 December, 2023
5 Frames with my Nikomat FTn in Milan
After watching Luchino Visconti’s acclaimed Rocco e suoi fratelli (1960) some years ago, I craved to visit Milan, particularly the city’s main attraction: the Mila...
27 December, 2023
5 Frames with “WP-Tech 100” and a repaired XA2
A few years ago I was gifted an XA2 via my local Buy/Nothing group after a bunch of people who were offered it first changed their minds when they realized it wasnt a digital ca...
20 December, 2023
5 Frames With a Trip 35 – A Brace of Olympi Pt. 2
Olympus compacts seemed to have been like London buses for a while round our way. No sooner had I caught the XA2 than it was closely followed by a Trip 35 at the same charity sh...
19 December, 2023
5 Frames with a Ricoh XR-X and Vivitar Series I 28-105mm f2.8-3.8
I wanted to see how effective this mid-Eighties body and lens combination would be as a walkabout camera. Theoretically, the wide zoom range and program mode would enable me to ...
16 December, 2023
5 Frames with Ilford Delta 100
I have adopted stand development in Rodinal 100:1 as my developer and process – easy, cheap, reliable, not fussy about temperature, and producing high acutance (strong ed...
13 December, 2023
5 Frames With an XA2 – A Brace of Olympi, Pt. 1
Love them or hate them, and personally I love them, charity shops (read thrift stores or op shops if you will) have become a ubiquitous feature of most high streets. At their pr...
My recent trip to Apulia, Italy, has been a great one. Not only did I experience the full beauty of Italian culture and landscapes, but also realized how far my photography jour...
