2 April, 2024
5 Frames with a Nikon F3 HP and Portra 400
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...
28 March, 2024
5 Frames with a Praktica MTL5B, a Pentacon 50/1,8 and a Roll of Portra 400 (expired in 2011)
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 ...
9 February, 2024
5 Colour Frames with a Yashica Mat TLR
My Dad got me into photography in the sixties, and I still use his Edixamat Reflex 35mm camera – it is built like a tank and after a CLA works a treat. His dream camera h...
23 October, 2023
5 Frames Beta Testing an Alfie Tych
I really like beta testing cameras and lenses. Obviously I do this for my own lenses, but I’ve also beta tested the likes of Pixii which was a real treat for a rangefinde...
27 August, 2023
Drinking Districts in Japan VI: Sapporo, and a Gruesome Start
I checked in to a decent hotel on the south side of the city and went out for a recce, walking north through the love hotel district, then “Soapland” – whic...
23 July, 2023
5 Frames with my newly acquired Pentax 67
Well, all roads would eventually lead here. I knew it in my gut. My dalliance with different film cameras and a desire for a certain quality took me past 35mm shooters with dece...
15 April, 2023
Drinking districts in Japan II – Nagasaki with a Leica iiig, 50mm Summitar and Portra 400
My photography is about people but often without people – stories in objects and surroundings about their lives and lifestyles.
Nagasaki (city) is a historically famous port. T...
26 March, 2023
Drinking districts in Japan I: Tokyo with a Leica iiig, 50mm Elmar f3.5 and Portra 400 – By Geoff Chaplin
My photography is about people but often without people – stories in objects and surroundings about their lives and lifestyles.
Japan probably conjures up many thoughts – crowd...