I got my first camera in 1966, it was a plasticky grey Ilford Sprite. I took mostly terrible photos on this little camera, but some were quite good, capturing the look of the ti...
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The best camera is the one you have with you. Now we have camera phones that fit in our pockets: back in the 1950s cameras were larger and were made of materials that were compa...
I think I may have mentioned once or twenty times that I shoot a huge proportion of my work on two focal lengths, the 50mm and 28mm. Now, the thing is that over the years my kit...
A few years ago, I went through a second-hand camera eBay phase. Unfortunately this phase coincided with my post-graduation unemployment phase, which had a drastic effect on the...
2 July, 2021
Leicaflex SL – Walks in Barcelona – By Jordi Fradera
Once again my neighbor has loaned me a camera, in this case a Leicaflex SL that he bought second-hand in the 90's for about 200 EUR and subsequently used for several years. In l...
This will be a mish mash of part review, tutorial and warning to all mankind about the perils of developing slide film.
I have a love-hate relationship with colour film of late...
It has always been hit or miss for me when I shot with slow speed films. Images were tragically soft or out of focus. I would either overexpose or underexpose each frame. Maybe ...
11 June, 2021
Heresy! Get with the Program (Mode) – By Bob Janes
Some photographers are slow to embrace change. Automatic exposure took a surprising time to get established. Part of this would have been a because photographers wanted to stay ...