The Kochmann Korelle 6×4.5 was a German strut-folding camera taking 16 negatives on a roll of 120 film, available from 1933 they were made up to the start of WW2. Apart fro...
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2 May, 2026
5 Frames in a Welsh Quarry
Last summer I tagged along with the local geology group on a visit to a nearby quarry, taking my Super Ikonta 530/16 and a roll of Delta 100 with me. Health and Safety being wha...
4 March, 2026
Lab-Box – A Developing Story in Which a Photographer Tries to Avoid Loading a Paterson Reel But Ends Up Doing it Anyway
It seems like I have always taken photos, starting with a 126 instamatic as soon as I could handle one. Then in the late 1970’s when I wanted to take some proper photographs (wi...
3 February, 2026
The Drinking Stone – a One Shot Story.
Perched on a ledge just above the road through the Hafren Forest in Mid-Wales this huge boulder was given the name from it’s habit of descending at dawn each day to the river be...
28 December, 2025
A Picture in Spring – My Favourite Photo From 2025
13th May 2025, early afternoon. The oak trees had only just fully come into leaf and it was a beautiful day, hot with clear blue skies and a gentle breeze. But none of the photo...
27 November, 2025
The Legendary Zeiss Super Ikonta 530/15
The featured image shows a Zeiss Ikonta family gathering. Left to right: Super Ikonta 530/16, Super Ikonta 530/15, Moscow 4 (the dodgy East European cousin), and a baby, the Iko...
4 November, 2025
5 Frames with Royalty at a Food Festival
I took a German/Italian Countess to a food festival the other week thinking it was the sort of outing she might enjoy, local artisan food producers along with some art and craft...
18 August, 2025
Voigtländer Bessa 46 – It’s Quite Good Actually.
I bought this Voigtländer Bessa 46 in a job lot of 4 cameras, it wasn’t the one I bought the lot for and to be honest it looked the least promising of them all and I had taken n...