A friend of mine has been doing a house clearance on behalf of a lady whose parents died. The house in question is next door to him and, as the daughter lives some distance away...
In early February 2020 I was in London. By then everyone knew something nasty was coming, if not perhaps how nasty it was going to be. And I read something very strange: because...
As a teenager growing up in suburban New Zealand during the early 90’s, New York seemed like an urban outpost on a distant planet. I recall a school friend giving me a co...
In my previous article about a roll of 40-years expired Kodacolor II, I stated that one of the main reasons for my interest in expired film is the fun of trying to get usable pi...
Since retiring in 2015, I have been seriously pursuing photography, digital for the most part. About a year or so ago, I resurrected an old film camera from the 1980s, a Konica ...
A retired moto-journalist friend loaned me his old photography bag when he heard I’d been shooting a lot of film. When I first returned to film, I’d mostly been us...
An afternoon of urban exploration looking for derelicted places gave me the chance to test a Praktica MTL 5b with its standard (pun intended) lens: the Pentacon 50/1,8, which I ...
When I first got back into shooting film around 2013, the first film SLR I acquired after a brief flirtation with lomography cameras was the Minolta X-700. I got it and a couple...