26 September, 2024
5 Frames with Pentacon F and Agfa APX 100
The Pentacon F camera was produced by the East German company VEB Pentacon Zeiss Ikon between September 1956 and June 1961 in Dresden. I lived in Dresden for two years in the 20...
6 August, 2024
Agfa APX 400 pushed to 1600 – When Needs Must
During a business trip in Slovakia, deep and up in the Tatra mountains. The weather forecast was telling of upcoming bad weather, but as I am a mountain person myself, I was not...
This subminiature stuff tends to drag you in.. While looking at various ways of reloading and re-using 110 cartridges recently, I remembered that I’d come across some 110...
7 June, 2024
5 Unintended frames with Agfa APX100 (and an OM4-Ti)
The sun was shining and my wife and I went out for a walk we had long intended to do, round the perimeter of a local Common. Nothing dramatic, but it was a walk we had not done ...
7 March, 2024
5 Frames with Agfa APX 400 in the Midwinter
I spent a few days in a quiet rural area, before actually reopening the business for 2024. You know, that time space between the end of year and beginning of the new daily strif...
27 February, 2024
5 Frames with a Voigtländer Vito CLR
A few months ago, whilst meandering through some local markets in Germany, I came across a table full of old cameras in various states of disrepair. Being addicted to film camer...
23 January, 2024
5 Frames Testing a Long Since Used Olympus 35 ECR
This camera including its now very battered soft case is one I bought in the early 1970s as a student to complement a much heavier Pentax SLR. It had a lot of use in the 1970s a...
14 December, 2023
Agfa Copex Rapid developed in H&W Control
The tantalising mysteries of microfilms (AKA ‘copy’ or ‘document’ films) grabbed my attention almost as soon as I re-entered the world of film a few ...