24 April, 2024
5 frames with a Minolta 700si
In a recent post, Julian Tanase urged us to think about “stepping back” in photography, using simpler cameras to make us think more about what we are doing. This pos...
Roger's Posts
I was recently scanning some very old family photos to preserve them, as the negatives were not in the best of condition, and I found myself enjoying looking at the folders they...
5 February, 2024
Fuji MX-500 – 5 Frames for Jankuary with my first digital camera
Given that others are digging out newer cameras for Jankuary, I decided to take another look at my first digital camera – a Fujifilm MX-500. This had a 1.5 megapixel camer...
23 January, 2024
5 Frames Testing a Long Since Used Olympus 35 ECR
This camera including its now very battered soft case is one I bought in the early 1970s as a student to complement a much heavier Pentax SLR. It had a lot of use in the 1970s a...
23 January, 2024
Bronica ETRSi and 135W – First Whole Roll Experiences
I have recently been experimenting with film again and, using a normal 35mm camera, and decided that I wanted to try something with panoramic format. There is an obvious choice,...
6 December, 2023
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
People of a certain age will recognize this as a quotation – possibly a misquotation – from one of Joni Mitchell’s songs that was probably popular around the ...
