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“Hi, they’ve got a Canon EOS 300 with a 28-105 lens and they want £5 for it. Do you want it?”
Yet another phone call from my wife from the local charity shop (or Charlie shop a...
As a young man in the early 90s I shot mainly with a Nikon F801s and a Seagull 6x6. Always wanting a "proper" medium format camera the nearest I got was picking up a brochure fo...
30 August, 2018
5 Frames with a Nikonos V – by Dirk Marwede
I picked up a Nikonos V with a 35mm lens for family holidays in the hot summer of 2018 at Garda lake, Italy. Being with kids on holidays, it is always a good idea to have a toug...
29 August, 2018
5 Frames from my First Roll of Kodak Portra 160 – By Stu Myers
The shots in this post are from a roll of Kodak Portra 160 very kindly donated by Kodak Alaris at the Beer and Cameras Birmingham photowalk. Colour film is a bit of an enigma to...
28 August, 2018
5 Frames with a Smena Symbol
Despite shooting film for almost nine years now, until recently I have never taken a picture on black and white film. It just wasn't my thing. But when I got two rolls of Ilford...
27 August, 2018
Silver Springs and a Voigtländer Vitomatic I – By Anthony Rue
By the time Voigtländer released the Vitomatic I in 1957, Silver Springs had been Florida's premiere tourist destination for almost 100 years. Over 500 million gallons of pristi...
26 August, 2018
Contax TVSii – a review with a few comparisons to the T2
The Contax TVSii is the 2nd of 3 zoom lens cameras in the Contax T range - the TVS came before, and the TVSiii followed. Though quite similar in appearance to the fixed focal le...
25 August, 2018
5 Frames With A Chinon 35EE – By Nigel Cliff
I won’t bore you with a life history, suffice to say I have been photographing for 42 years through manual focus, onto autofocus, onto digital with AF everything; and then for t...
