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14 August, 2024
How Hercule Poirot Helped Me to Find a 6×6, or is the Voigländer Perkeo the Moka Pot of Cameras – A One Shot Story
My wife is an ardent fan of Hercule Poirot stories. Especially the TV-series kind, starred by Sir David Suchet. Some time ago she was wondering, whether the Poirot series could ...
14 August, 2024
5 Frames in Old San Juan On a Mamiya 6 with Fujichrome
Since getting back into film, photography has become a focal point of my travels, even when it’s simply to document the mundane. Unlike the bottomless nature of digital photogra...
13 August, 2024
Father, Son and a Texas Star – A One Shot Story
After moving to Austin Texas in 2018 from Toronto Canada, I was eager to get out and shoot some film. I had come back to shooting film again from a decade or so of pray and spra...
13 August, 2024
Shooting Sheet film in a Polaroid Pack Camera
My stash of Polaroid pack film was running low when I realized that all of my Polaroid pack cameras would be film orphans soon unless someone started producing pack film again. ...
12 August, 2024
The Camera that Launched my Career… and Nearly Devastated me.
I’m talking about the EXA 1-A, my first ‘grown-up’ camera. Don’t confuse this model with classic Exacta cameras with leaf or focal plane shutters. The Exa has no real shutter. T...
I’d wanted to try Harman Phoenix for a while. When it was released in late 2023, there was a lot of excitement for a new colour film – not a repackaged Kodak cine-fi...
10 August, 2024
5 Frames Going Square with 35mm Film in a Minolta 24 Rapid
So you like square format but you don’t want to pay the price for medium format or bear the weight and prefer the convenience of 135. And if you can barely get through 36 frames...
9 August, 2024
An Accidental Living-Room – A One Shot Story
The photograph illustrating this post was taken nine summers ago, on a Sunday, while I was walking along the Thames Path in East London, not far from the Canada Water DLR Statio...
