I was recently reading about the industrial designer Sir Kenneth Grange, who over a long career has been involved in the creation of an impressive range of household products in...
It was the camera that got me into medium format film photography, and for better or worse, the one that I love, and the one that frustrates me the most. A Soviet tank of a came...
The Bronica S2A is a hefty 6x6 focal plane medium format SLR that was produced in Tokyo from 1969-1977. It was the last fully mechanical 6x6 SLR among Bronica's Z/D, C, and S se...
First a confession: That photo isn’t Mom’s Kodak; but it’s just like it. Using a 1950's Kodak Brownie Hawkeye model with either 120 or 620 film and a bulb flash is easy and rewa...
Aeronautical and General Instruments, or AGI, used to have a factory in Purley way. At the time, London’s main airport was just across the road from the factory. During the Seco...
I shot a roll with a twin-lens reflex camera (TLR) for the first time this month. But long before I used a TLR in real life, I loved the idea of it – so much so that I thought t...
A lot of photographers have the opinion that an investment in new equipment will solve their photographic problems and let them make better photos. In most cases this is an illu...
Just over a year ago (pre-Covid 19) I was excited to discover an antique half plate mahogany folding field camera had come in for auction at work. Supposedly from sometime aroun...
