I confess the company history around the Weston meter leaves me a bit confused. There were lots of mergers and buy-outs over time on both sides of the Atlantic. Sangamo and West...
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19 June, 2025
Byzantium – Ancient Constantinople, Modern Istanbul – On Film and Through the eye of my Contax G2
This is a record of a couple of trips I took back in 2007/2008. I brought along my Contax G2, 45mm Planar, 90mm Sonnar and 21mm Biogon plus a load of different films to use. Eve...
18 June, 2025
Fields filled with ruins, cows, trees and boredom
No pretence of art. No photographs of high definition, and certainly not the type of photos to put into your portfolio. No great artistic feelings here, and no “nobody understan...
18 June, 2025
Spam Attack – Fixed, but a quick warning
Just a quick note to some contributors that would have been sent spam comments today… We have just swapped to a new antispam system as I was getting bombarded by spam sign...
There are certain subjects I find myself shooting over and over again, usually because they are a point of interest in some daily or frequent ritual activity. When I’m in...
National weather forecasts declared that my corner of Minnesota would develop the conditions for powerful tornadoes on Monday, April 28. My wife and I watched as storm clouds mo...
17 June, 2025
Rebuilding a Canon Super 8 with Raspberry Pi
Last year, I found a broken Canon 514XL-S Super 8 camera at a flea market in Sydney for $5. It was clearly non-functional, but something about the design — the shape, the feel o...
16 June, 2025
Olympus XA1 – One roll mini-review
I have enjoyed owning and using various Olympus XA cameras for a while, but I had skipped over the XA1 with its fixed focus and protruding shutter button. I wondered why would t...
