I was a frustrated teenage photographer, unable to afford the cameras that I saw in the window of Jessops in Belfast and in the pages of Amateur Photographer that I browsed – an...
10 months on from buying my M6, I’m now at the stage that I’m beginning to get used to it. The lens choice for me was simple, either 35mm or 50mm. Both suit my style...
Some people curse at Holgas for being temperamental. Holga, of course, doesn't give a rat's behind who curses and who doesn't. And that's because Holga, as the name suggests, pr...
A couple of weeks ago I attended a Beers and Cameras meetup and photo walk in Birmingham organised by this site's very own Hamish Gill. I took my Leica M6TTL as usual, this is m...
The Ricoh GR Digital is by all accounts an elderly digital camera. Released in 2005, it’s been superseded 5 times. This possibly begs the question as to why I’ve just spent £100...
Pretty much every person we meet has been told somewhere that developing black-and-white film at home is reasonable, but that developing colour film is just too tricky. But this...
Like many of you, I have a bad habit of cruising auction sites looking at cameras I shouldn’t be buying. I also have a habit of dropping low-ball bids on cameras und...
Any film photographer who saw an advertisement for Kodachrome likely reacted as I did: “Gee, I really should check out that movie.” If you follow through, you might be disappoin...