In retrospect perhaps I tempted fate. This Jankuary road trip retraced the steps of a trip I made in the late 1980s to retrieve our Combi van that had broken down when my wife a...
David Hume's Posts
8 January, 2024
NONS Instant back review
The overview After shooting 30 frames in my Hasselblad 503 CX with the NONS Instant back I stopped thinking about the back at all and simply thought about making images. In othe...
19 October, 2023
Olympus Trip 35 on Holiday – Part 2 – Getting Arty in Italy
This is the second of two articles about the Trip 35. The first is here, and that one is a simple review that deals with using the camera as it was intended. In this second piec...
17 February, 2023
Quick Thoughts on Eight of the Nikkor Nifty Fifties – by David Hume
Several months ago I wrote a piece on my newly acquired Nikon Df. The piece was OK, but I’ve thought since then that I didn’t really do the camera justice. My though...
28 October, 2022
Olympus Trip 35 on Holiday – Part 1 – Keeping it Simple in New Zealand – by David Hume
The Olympus Trip 35 is a compact 35mm viewfinder camera released in the late 1960s that sold millions of units and had a long production run. It’s a famous benchmark camera for ...
I remember the immense hype around the Nikon Df just before its release in 2013 - teaser campaigns; leaked specs, mystery mock-ups. Then came a tsunami of derision and disappoin...
The day I made these shots I was woken up by surreal yellow light coming through the window of the shack.
We’ve stayed at this beach each summer for thirty or more years and I’...
12 February, 2022
5 Frames with Expired Fujicolor Press 800 in a Nikon F4 – By David Hume
Over the past couple of years I’ve been working through a shoebox of expired film given to me by a friend. I started with some exotics - some 120 Agfachrome 100, some Ektachrome...
