29 December, 2023
5 Frames with my Nikomat FTn in Milan
After watching Luchino Visconti’s acclaimed Rocco e suoi fratelli (1960) some years ago, I craved to visit Milan, particularly the city’s main attraction: the Mila...
27 December, 2023
5 Frames with “WP-Tech 100” and a repaired XA2
A few years ago I was gifted an XA2 via my local Buy/Nothing group after a bunch of people who were offered it first changed their minds when they realized it wasnt a digital ca...
22 December, 2023
The Whole Roll – Weekend in Northern Quebec
This roll of film was taken in northern Quebec, during a weekend road trip. I had wanted to see Tadoussac for a number of years but had not found time until this summer. I drove...
20 December, 2023
5 Frames With a Trip 35 – A Brace of Olympi Pt. 2
Olympus compacts seemed to have been like London buses for a while round our way. No sooner had I caught the XA2 than it was closely followed by a Trip 35 at the same charity sh...
19 December, 2023
5 Frames with a Ricoh XR-X and Vivitar Series I 28-105mm f2.8-3.8
I wanted to see how effective this mid-Eighties body and lens combination would be as a walkabout camera. Theoretically, the wide zoom range and program mode would enable me to ...
17 December, 2023
A Curious British Institution, and the Tale of an Agfa Isolette II
Up and down the length and breadth of Britain, a strange ritual occurs on most Sunday mornings. It has nothing to do with a faith or religion, but everything to do with belief, ...
16 December, 2023
5 Frames with Ilford Delta 100
I have adopted stand development in Rodinal 100:1 as my developer and process – easy, cheap, reliable, not fussy about temperature, and producing high acutance (strong ed...
15 December, 2023
Home on Mamiya RB67
I didn’t even realize it and two years have passed since I published my first and only article on the 35mmc blog. Even then, at the end of the article about my fascination...
