The Yashica Samurai X3.0 camera came out of left field to me. I have run the #halfframeclub for almost 2 years, but this camera never fit my idea of what a half frame camera sho...
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What does £3 of your hard earned cash get you these days? Well, if you look hard enough you might be able to grab yourself a Olympus AF10 Twin. Car boot sale and charity shops a...
2 September, 2018
Kodak Pro Image 100 – First Roll Review
On the last day of a recent jolly to North Wales with the family, we all went for a little bike ride into the countryside. Knowing I was going to be pulling Norah in a little tr...
“Hi, they’ve got a Canon EOS 300 with a 28-105 lens and they want £5 for it. Do you want it?”
Yet another phone call from my wife from the local charity shop (or Charlie shop a...
As a young man in the early 90s I shot mainly with a Nikon F801s and a Seagull 6x6. Always wanting a "proper" medium format camera the nearest I got was picking up a brochure fo...
30 August, 2018
5 Frames with a Nikonos V – by Dirk Marwede
I picked up a Nikonos V with a 35mm lens for family holidays in the hot summer of 2018 at Garda lake, Italy. Being with kids on holidays, it is always a good idea to have a toug...
29 August, 2018
5 Frames from my First Roll of Kodak Portra 160 – By Stu Myers
The shots in this post are from a roll of Kodak Portra 160 very kindly donated by Kodak Alaris at the Beer and Cameras Birmingham photowalk. Colour film is a bit of an enigma to...
28 August, 2018
5 Frames with a Smena Symbol
Despite shooting film for almost nine years now, until recently I have never taken a picture on black and white film. It just wasn't my thing. But when I got two rolls of Ilford...
