7 January, 2021
Toronto with an Orphan Camera – By Brian Nicholls
It was the end of our Christmas 2008 holiday in Canada. My wife and I along with our son and his family – a party of six had spent the time with our other son and his extended C...
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17 September, 2020
Disposable Camera Holiday Snaps – Moments of Truth (Part Two) – By Brian Nicholls
Why would someone with a brace of half decent cameras even consider buying a disposable camera?
I pondered over this question as I emerged from a photographic shop in the city ...
We’ve all got George Eastman and his Brownie cameras to thank for creating the tool for vernacular photography. That simple principle of combining a single element, fixed focus ...
24 November, 2019
5 Frames With the runt of the litter: The Olympus XA1 – Brian Nicholls
The Olympus XA1 was ntroduced in 1982. This little gem of a clamshell 35mm compact was the simplest and cheapest of the XA series. It has a fixed-focus f/4 to f/22 x 4 element Z...