I have long been interested in trying a camera with larger negatives, but because the Fuji GW690 is rather expensive for something that might turn out to be of no more than nove...
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8 August, 2024
5 Frames with Ilford Ortho Plus
I’d been wanting to try some slower films and after a review decided to try some Ilford Ortho Plus. The opportunity to try it out came with a short trip to Somerset, so I ...
27 June, 2024
My First use of Caffenol
There is lots of advice on this on the web but here is some more, in case it is helpful to anyone. I recently started to use film again and, as it was inexpensive, invested in a...
7 June, 2024
5 Unintended frames with Agfa APX100 (and an OM4-Ti)
The sun was shining and my wife and I went out for a walk we had long intended to do, round the perimeter of a local Common. Nothing dramatic, but it was a walk we had not done ...
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...
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...