A couple of years ago I happened to see an image on Twitter that completely stopped me in my tracks. It was a very fortunate sighting as I'm not a big fan of twitter, I am howev...
If X is good and Y is good, then X and Y combined must be even better. Out of this misguided reasoning have emerged such unholy inventions as the beer-tap hat and ice-cream frie...
26 May, 2023
That Time I Shot with Ilford Multigrade RC as film.
Many moons ago I was keen to try my hand with large format, as large as I could manage, 10 x 8 seeming a good choice. You can tell how long ago from my pinhole shot of the Humbe...
24 May, 2023
A DIY shutter speed tester.
Shutter and iris are the main functions of older cameras that can have suffered over time. Build-up of “muck” or sticky lubricants getting where they shouldn’t mostly are to bla...
Ages ago, the guys at West Yorkshire Cameras posted a picture of a lens they "cobbled" together on Instagram. Apparently, behind the scenes they had joked about the fact that I ...
When Part 2 of this three-part series went online, reader Stephen Meese made a comment that said it all:
"Wait, you experimented with a different film format, AND shot without...
14 April, 2023
Fuji 100mm F3.5 AE Lens (6X9) adapted to Pentax (35mm)
It is a lens designed for medium format cameras (6x7 and 6x9) of the Fuji brand, which began to be marketed in 1974. It has a classic Tessar optical design, that is, 4 elements ...
27 March, 2023
Polaroid Pathfinder – Shooting 120 Film In My Father-In-Law’s Essentially Obsolete Camera
My father-in-law is a bit of a packrat. He loves people and he’s always got relevant questions, stories, and of course stuff in his hoard. Tell him what you’re interested in, an...
