11 January, 2025
5 Shots From Minolta’s Entry Level AF SLR – The Dynax 300si
Quite a few years ago I was gifted a Minolta Dynax 500si. The donor had sold the lens on its own so the body came to me “because I do film photography stuff”. I alre...
10 January, 2025
5 frames with Ilford XP2 film
Ilford XP2 is a black and white film emulsion designed to be processed in C-41 color chemistry. The box speed is 400, but many people shoot it at higher speeds with good results...
10 January, 2025
5 Frames with a Nikon F65 – an old photographic friend
Nikon F65 is… No, that’s not exactly what I will be talking about in this post. Nikon F65 is my first SLR, and was equipped with a 28-80 Nikkor lens when I bought it brand new i...
8 January, 2025
Reedy Island Range Rear Lighthouse – One Shot Story
I was finishing out my roll of Arista-EDU-400 film in an Argus C3, and this light house looked very forlorn on a slightly overcast winter day here in Delaware, USA. The lighthou...
8 January, 2025
Hokkaido Road Trip with Sora 200 and Phoenix 200
I usually traveled by ferry to Japan, but the next destination required a flight: Hokkaido. The northernmost island had eluded me for some time. On my way out of Korea and back ...
These are from my second attempt to take pictures of snow scenes with this camera. On the first the snow was freshly fallen, and the light better, I had set the aperture to f/22...
5 January, 2025
Orwell’s Greenwich – A Photo Essay
‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ The opening sentence of George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’ is, like...
The first snow came in early this year in late November, and everybody was excited. It’s an event, when grown-up adults feel as excited as they were back in the days of childhoo...
