I re-discovered the 28mm focal length at 28 years of age, and it all seemed to fall in place. It was a strange sensation — analogous to a child opening a lock for the first tim...
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9 October, 2020
16 Frames / A Whole Roll of Ilford HP5+ in a Box Tengor 54 – #FullRollFriday – by Steve Phillips
My son bought me a copy of David Ellwand’s “Retro Photo” for my birthday in June. An excellent book, it is a guided tour of his camera collection, with exam...
I’m going to own up to it now, to pre-emptively caveat this Olympus mju-V review. I am one of the dreaded Millenials (or even Generation Z, depending where you draw the line) th...
On the eastern banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire, north of Sharpness Dock, can be found the enigmatic Purton Ships Graveyard. From 1909 until the 1960s various ships,...
This article is a little different. It is very much focussed on a camera, but I’m hoping it will be of interest to photographers to give some background and understanding...
The Hedeco Lime One compact shoe mount light meter has just launched on Kickstarter - I have been playing with a beta version for the last week, so thought I would share my a li...
Ahh, Polaroid film. Flawed, unpredictable, pricey, and yet – deeply satisfying on so many levels. An anachronistic pleasure that every film enthusiast should at least once exper...
6 October, 2020
When You Pray, Be Specific – By Gerard Exupery
It’s another beautiful day in paradise. Dark, and rainy. It’s one of those days that suggest the beauty of film. F-stop wide open, the darkness and grain, the feeling of an impr...
