The fuji zoom date 2.8 or Silvi or whatever you want to call it, has always seemed a bit of an enigma to me. They tend to go for close to £100, sometimes more, but really are ju...
Hamish Gill's Posts
The old 1.35v mercury px625 batteries are no longer available. There is a modern equivalent px625 replacement batery, made as far as I can tell exclusively by wein but they aren...
11 January, 2014
Olympus 35rc Review – yet another classic Oly
The most obvious feature of the Olympus 35rc is it’s size! When I first read about it after seeing it on Dan K’s twitter avatar, I was dead set on getting one! I was...
15 December, 2013
My failing right eye, an old watch, the Leica M7 and learning how to frame a photo again…
The following is an anecdotal tale of how and why I have come to own a Leica M7, and more importantly what this beautiful bit of kit has brought to the table for me as a photogr...
5 December, 2013
The Traveling Yashica: Hamish Gill, A trip to Huddersfield
Since Ben Jennings is a mate of mine and since he happened to be visiting me whilst in possession of the the traveling yashica I thought it would be rude not to sneak a film thr...
22 November, 2013
Contax T2 Review – it’s chunky, it’s very expensive, but it’s good!
More so than any 35mm af/ae compact camera I have yet used, the Contax T2 feels the part in the hand. My very first impression of handling the camera was definitely a positive o...
14 November, 2013
Thoughts on ‘up north 1’ and a little common ground shared with someone I’ve never met …
I was first made aware of Paul and his photos through an article he wrote for JCH. The article, which can be found here, is about his current relationship with photography and f...
24 September, 2013
How to Home Brew Redscale Film
I have had a passing interesting in giving redscale film a go for a while now, I’ve just never been that confident it was worth shelling out the cash for. But since I foun...