Some cameras make you feel clever. The Voigtländer Bessa L makes you feel… well, slightly mad. A 35mm body without a viewfinder is like a pub without beer: technically possible,...
16 October, 2025
The Rover returns – A one shot story
As an impressionable thirteen year old, the new Rover P6 3500 S driven by Dave, one of my snorkelling instructors, had me transfixed. The smart Rover ferried a few of us to a lo...
16 October, 2025
5 Frames with Kentmere 400 along Portugal’s coastline
There was definitely a time where I thought I needed the right camera to make photographs at my highest potential. Piggybacking off my last ‘5 frames’ article, where I suggeste...
11 October, 2025
5 Frames with the Contax TVS, Kono! Art 100 and a Baltic Marina
Some trips are like good coffee: strong, slightly bitter, and they wake you up to reality – or at least to the view. My August 2023 jaunt to the Baltic coast – Travemünde, Laboe...
8 October, 2025
5 Frames from a mental health day
I love teaching. Working with teenagers is rewarding work… and exhausting. I see around 160-180 students per semester. It is challenging work, but I get to share the thing I lov...
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...
