31 August, 2023
5 frames with an Olympus Trip – Sell or Keep?
I didn’t own a car until I was in my mid twenties. In my late teens and early twenties, travel was all about motorcycles. At 17 an Olympus Trip 35 was my companion for on...
30 August, 2023
5 Frames with Lomography Metropolis, an OM-2n on the central plains of Kansas – Ruralopolis
The first week of June I made a 3 night, 700 mile trip from my home outside Indianapolis, IN to Wichita, KS. I had images in a curated exhibition at the Midwest Center for...
26 August, 2023
5 Frames from a 500mm – A Whole New World
I found a ‘reflex’ telephoto lens from Tamron, f8 and now I cant think about photography in the same way. Ive been looking for a 500mm or higher for a while and bidi...
24 August, 2023
8 Frames with the Canon Sure Shot Classic 120 – a Stress Test
I am a lazy perfectionist on a tight budget. It’s a tough combination for any hobbyist, especially a film shooter. Especially nowadays. I outsource development and high-r...
16 August, 2023
5 Frames with JCH Street Pan in Saratoga Springs, NY
Street Pan 400 is a B&W film that was reputedly originally used in Belgian traffic surveillance. Resurrected and put back into production in 2016, it’s a film with goo...
15 August, 2023
5 Frames with Holga 120N and Kodak Porta 160
Is this Holga 120N a toy camera? It feels like it because it is all made of plastic including the lens and the construction of it itself is rather flimsy. However, in spite of t...
Strange thoughts occur to me sometimes when travelling on trains. I happened to be passing through Nunhead on one earlier this year it struck me that I hadn’t yet visited ...
27 July, 2023
5 frames with Voigtlander Bessa L and Ilford XP2
I have had this camera for 7 years, which is longer than I’ve had any other film camera, partly because it’s great, and partly because it still works. bought i...
