28 January, 2024
5 Frames with a Leica 111a
A year ago I decided I had come to the end of my time as a film only photographer, it had been a wonderful time full of film discoveries, I must have tried out over 40 different...
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27 January, 2024
5 frames in Los Angeles with a Kodak S1100XL and Ilford HP5+
For my entire 27 years on Earth, I have been plagued with the habit of spacing out and leaving things places. Sometimes it’ll be a jacket, but most of the time it’s ...
26 January, 2024
Kodak DX6340 – A Day With a 2003 Digicam for Jankuary
I mentioned in my last post that I am a compulsive collector of Kodak cameras and have a number that I have never used. The current Jankuary January strand prompted me to look f...
26 January, 2024
Fixing the Fujica SLR lens compatibility problem
M42 is intended to be the universal mount. Unfortunately if you’re using a screw-mount Fujica SLR, that’s not entirely the case. There’s a design issue that pr...
25 January, 2024
Yashica Mat 124G – First Roll Experiences
The Yashica Mat 124G, an embodiment of mid-20th-century camera engineering. It greeted me with its robust, yet elegant, presence. The utilitarian design, devoid of modern frills...
24 January, 2024
New Website Update (the adverts are back…)
I can very much seeing the light at the end of the website update tunnel now. Almost everything has been fixed, with only a final few tweaks now underway. You can see a list of ...
24 January, 2024
Fujica Half – the Revival of a Half Frame Camera
At some point in the first half of the 90s I was very much into 16mm and Minox format film photography (still am); 35mm was something of a side thing, with 120 MF just a ro...
24 January, 2024
Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 1)
Over the years, many people have asked online how to do macro photography with vintage Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLRs. Here’s a 2005 thread on the subject. Common wisdom says ...
