7 October, 2025
5 frames in France with a Contax RX
I have a problem. I love cameras. Especially older film cameras. It’s that tactile feeling of holding it and finding all the controls under my fingertips. A couple of year...
6 October, 2025
5 Frames with a Trichroming Minolta AF-S Talkman
If you read my earlier piece about the Minolta AF-S V&D, also known as “The Talker”, then you’ll know it checks a lot of boxes for what I want from a compact point-and...
2 October, 2025
5 Frames with a Kodak Pocket A-1, Kodak’s most pointless camera
The Kodak Pocket A-1 was a 110-format camera introduced by Kodak in 1978. In 1980 (and I cannot believe they made it for more than two years) it was renamed Kodak Brownie. It is...
30 September, 2025
5 Frames with my Minolta HiMatic 9
Recently I posted a 5 Frames featuring my Minox 35GT, a lovely and tiny 35mm camera which gave me pleasing results. Well, this post is about my recent experience with the latest...
28 September, 2025
5 Frames with a Pentax Pino 35 and Kentmere 400
I think this camera came to my attention as I was browsing through various blogs and reviews about cheap take-anywhere point & shoot types. My own journey down that road had...
27 September, 2025
5 Frames with 5 lenses and a Nikon F in Tennessee’s Oldest Town
I recently moved to Jonesborough, Tennessee, to be close to the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smoky Mountains. Jonesborough is the county seat for Washington County, the fi...
26 September, 2025
5 Frames with a Mamiya 6 on expired Fujifilm Pro 400H
Something very specific happens to my brain whenever I load up a medium format camera with expired film. It’s probably 90% fear. You never quite know what you’re going to end up...
20 September, 2025
5 Frames of Ilford HP5 on the Streets of Belfast with a Minolta Maxxum 5
Belfast has been like a second home to me now for the better part of 20 years. I fell in love with the city and its people the first time I visited Belfast as an undergraduate i...
