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9 December, 2024
5 Frames with an Olympus 35 SP
For an upcoming trip to Japan, I decided I wanted to travel fairly light (camera-wise!) using just my shoulder-bag. Whilst my backpack holds lots of gear, fishing out the camera...
9 December, 2024
Fujifilm GA645W – medium format for mountaineering?
All mountaineers interested in photography have compromised at some point on the photographic equipment they are willing to carry. For years, my choices were either a Ricoh GR1 ...
8 December, 2024
Brighton montage – a one shot story
February 2014 at a conference in Brighton. I took my recently acquired Rollei B35 along with some Kodak Gold. In the less interesting intervals of the conference I sneaked out t...
8 December, 2024
Returning to the Hakone Turnpike
It was a balmy midsummer’s morning, which in coastal Japanese terms equates to an omnipresent buzz of cicadas and the thick heavy grasp of coastal humidity that one learns...
7 December, 2024
Minolta 16MG & Adox CMS 20 II – Zones 5 through 9
Using high contrast film on architectural subjects with 16mm.
7 December, 2024
Get out and Photograph a Tree!
Get out and photograph a tree because “the world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes”. There’s a tree growing not far from where I live that I mus...
6 December, 2024
5 Frames in Berlin with Leica M3 & Ilford HP5
About a year ago, as my wife and I began planning our recent trip to Berlin, Munich and Amsterdam, my thoughts immediately turned to photography. I can’t be the first member of ...
6 December, 2024
Rollei 35T – A compact hiking companion
I had been desiring a Rollei 35 for a while, after previously owning a B35 which produced some nice pictures for me but had a tendency to chew the film between sprocket holes an...
