16 February, 2024
5 Frames with Five Fifties and a Leica SL (Typ 601)
The bearded man passed the grey box to me. It was heavy, heavier than I expected. It also had it inside. It sensed I had it and it called to me. I hefted the box, looking u...
15 February, 2024
5 Frames in Greece with the Contax T3
First: WOW. What a privilege to even type the title of this one. Me? Jetting off to Greece? For 10 days? With a Contax T3?! Yeah, that happened. I stuffed my essentials in a sin...
15 February, 2024
5-ish Frames with a Kodak Tourist II
Like many photographers who have been shooting for years I have a cabinet of old cameras. Some were given to me as gifts and quite a few are cameras I used in my work over the y...
11 February, 2024
5 Frames with a Yashica 35 Rangefinder
Six months ago I left Florida and moved to Vietnam as something of an economic refugee. I’m a science teacher and staying in Florida increasingly meant subsistence living...
9 February, 2024
5 Colour Frames with a Yashica Mat TLR
My Dad got me into photography in the sixties, and I still use his Edixamat Reflex 35mm camera – it is built like a tank and after a CLA works a treat. His dream camera h...
7 February, 2024
5 Frames with the MiniCam 100k – My Jankuary project
I liked the idea of Jankuary when the first posts appeared, and started wondering what I could use. Ideally without buying anything! I considered my early Fujifilm bridge camera...
4 February, 2024
5 Frames with a Kodak Medalist II and Ektar 100
Kodak’s original brochure for the Medalist II describes it as a “compact, integrated assembly”. They’re so wrong. It’s a magnificent beast. The cel...
30 January, 2024
5 frames of 40-years expired Kodacolor II
Almost immediately along with getting into analog photography about three years ago I developed an interest in expired film. The excitement of getting pictures out of film that&...
