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...
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 ...
The character on the right, Hesomaru, is the mascot of Furano. The ‘face’ is drawn on his rather large belly while is head and arms are hidden under the hat. Heso me...
I recently visited a small town in Eastern Europe, in the Republic of Moldova. A small country, somewhere on a sliver of land between the Prut and the Dniester rivers, a country...
The Rolleiflex 3.5F wasn't my first TLR - that honour goes to the MPP Microcord. But the Rolleiflex is a name up there with Leica and Carl Zeiss.
When one thinks of a TLR, imag...
Going through my local flea market, one camera instantly caught my attention. The Yashica T2. With no battery, I wasn't sure if it was working. However, I negotiated the price d...
Going back to basics in photography - using just a light-tight box, a single lens, and a mechanical shutter and winder – is often framed as a return to simplicity, even if it im...
Agfa film running through an Agfa camera, once quite common, is now increasingly rare as stocks of the film dwindle and the cameras fall into disrepair. But with help from my da...
