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22 May, 2026
Nikon FE – Out of the Drawer and Into the Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvanation (Part Four)
This article doesn’t quite fit my ‘Out of the Drawer’ series, but then again it sort of does. Perhaps it should be called, ‘Reverse lens macro photography with a Nikkor 50...
22 May, 2026
Nikon F2 – A few from the first roll
I recently added a Nikon F2 to the stable and loaded it up with Kodak Portra 400. The following shots were taken over several days in several locations with two lenses: the pre-...
21 May, 2026
A Juggler In Bruxelles – One Shot Story
Bruxelles, late afternoon of a spring day. The Gare du Midi is just a few hundred metres away. The traffic flows dully, green is a go, red is a stop. Cars halt at pedestrian cro...
21 May, 2026
Thypoch Ksana 35mm f/2 ASPH Review
Thypoch has quickly made a name for itself in the Leica community, thanks to its compelling lenses for the M mount. Since the launch of their Simera lineup, which offered high-p...
A year ago I wrote a piece here introducing Frames, an app to log film photography metadata and write it back into your scans. What I didn’t tell you was that I’d ju...
20 May, 2026
Rolleiflex 3.5B – Thoughts After 3 Rolls
This past week I received the lab scans from my third roll through the Rollei. For fun I thought that I’d try a roll of Lomo Turquoise. In early April I posted a single sh...
20 May, 2026
Fujica GW690 with Bulb Setting – Mini Review
I spotted this camera online while looking for something else and, after double checking that it really was a Fujica GW690 with an actual B setting on the shutter speed ring, I ...
19 May, 2026
5 Frames with the Ricoh 500 ME – What Grain Does.
I took these photographs at two very different moments. The first were made on the Norfolk coast. I was very unwell at the time. The trip was meant to get me out of the house, t...
