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21 February, 2025
BlackBox Holo MF and 135 film digitiser – a Review
This is a review of the BlackBox Holo MF and 135 film digitiser. If this looks familiar its because I wrote a review of their 35mm film scanner on 23rd May 2024. I found that sc...
21 February, 2025
Minolta AF-S V&D — What was the mind of Minolta thinking?
I can be a sucker for gimmicks, and the Minolta Talker is as gimmicky as they come. The Talker, also branded as the AF-Sv, is a variant of the AF-S with the same lens and featur...
20 February, 2025
5 Frames with various cameras – Ferrari On The Road(s)
Sports car photography usually happens in specific settings such as motorshows, official events, race tracks etc., where lights, crowds, fences and limited access to restricted ...
Showing my family the grandeur of the Canadian Rockies was not going to plan. My wife and son had flown in from New York a few days before and the centerpiece of the trip was t...
19 February, 2025
Adventures with my 50-year-old OM-1 and some new issues with scanning
This was going to be about my old original Olympus OM-1 but it really just reflects a journey that might feel familiar to many within the world of film photography today… ...
19 February, 2025
The Winter of a Lake
It’s always interesting, at least for me, to visit and observe small communities during or around the holidays. This time I happened to be in a small village somewhere in the Bu...
18 February, 2025
A personal view of the CCD versus CMOS debate.
There has been quite a bit of discussion recently about the relative merits of CCD and CMOS sensors. I did some further reading and came across this article. The most interestin...
18 February, 2025
Never leave a roll behind…
In June of 2023, I set off on a two-week trip to Scotland. For weeks before I left, I agonized over what to bring, as we were trying to travel light. In the end, I decided on my...
