On a wing and an ebay-prayer I scored a near-mint version of this lovely little half frame camera from mid 60’s Japan, and about a month later it arrived on my doorstep in Michigan. The world is sometimes a lovely place, indeed.…
I'm organising a Worcester Photo Walk followed by a showing of Simon & Dave's One Shot: Inchindown at The KilnWe will meet at 13:00 at The Kiln, go for a photo…
I'll admit it. I repurpose content from my blog into 5 Frames posts for 35mmc. That's what this post was going to be, a reworking of a recent post about my…
Open-aperture TTL metering was pretty standard when I started using 35mm SLRs in the Eighties, but back in the Sixties it was a Big New Thing. These two cameras, the Topcon…
If you have read any of my other posts to this site, I am a big advocate of stretching outside your comfort zone. Most of the time this involves trying out…
In a previous post, I didn't mention that my very first personal camera is the Kodak Instamatic 155x that Dad brought me during a summer camp in 1972. After six years…
I had just bought my first rangefinder lens, an uncommon Japanese one from the fifties. The long wait until it would pass the German bureaucratic nightmare that is the Zollamt (customs…
The Pentax Espio 80 is a camera that suckered me in purely because of the way it looks. To my eye, it has a bit of a Functionalist aesthetic. There’s no…
I'd only shot Cinestill 800t once. I was given a roll by a friend over a year ago and was petrified I'd screw it up. Eventually I bit the bullet, loaded…
