3 September, 2024
My Asylum Years
Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was quite en...
28 August, 2024
The Stupidity of Being Stubborn
I knew exactly that I was going to fail, but I did it anyway, irrationally thinking that for some not well clear reason the law of physics and optics could be defied by the sacr...
27 August, 2024
A Collector’s Journey From Microscopes to Cancer to Cameras
My passion for film photography began with a different sort of vintage lens, the kind you mount to an aged brass microscope. I’m a biologist and have always been fascinated with...
17 August, 2024
The beginning of a TLR Challenge
Like many other photographers it seems, I have problems with TLRs. It’s not that the format is new – I used to use a Hasselblad regularly for 5 years or so – and it’s not ...
12 August, 2024
The Camera that Launched my Career… and Nearly Devastated me.
I’m talking about the EXA 1-A, my first ‘grown-up’ camera. Don’t confuse this model with classic Exacta cameras with leaf or focal plane shutters. The Exa has no real shutter. T...
It was the 9th year of the third millennium. One of the last years in which western civilization advanced forward. Some of the last good music was being recorded, and there was ...
24 July, 2024
Learning to Shoot Fashion Shows on Film
I recently started spending more time with the portrait photography community at university, which heavily intersected with the sustainable fashion community. As a result, I had...
21 July, 2024
The Cost of the Mamiya 7
In the early days of the pandemic I purchased a Mamiya 7 kit from an old timer at a reasonable price. This had long been a dream camera of mine and I had been searching for one ...
