8 August, 2024
5 Frames with Ilford Ortho Plus
I’d been wanting to try some slower films and after a review decided to try some Ilford Ortho Plus. The opportunity to try it out came with a short trip to Somerset, so I ...
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8 August, 2024
Adventures in C-Mount 110-Film Scanning
In a previous article, I explored macro-photography using C-mount cine lenses attached to a Fiji X-Pro1 APS-C digital. In those three experiments, I discovered that my mounting ...
My journey into photography started when I was about 7 years old, in the early 80s, when I got a very simple Agfa Instamatic sensor camera (it took 126 film) as a gift from my a...
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 ...
6 August, 2024
Agfa APX 400 pushed to 1600 – When Needs Must
During a business trip in Slovakia, deep and up in the Tatra mountains. The weather forecast was telling of upcoming bad weather, but as I am a mountain person myself, I was not...
6 August, 2024
5 Frames with a Fed-2 – New aspects, old subject
Following up our photo walk last year Tim Wainwright, Bob Janes and I met up at the end of May for another one. This time it was in Greenwich, familiar stomping ground for Bob a...
5 August, 2024
Leica CL – A Vindication
Born from a collaboration between Leitz and Minolta, the Leica CL was introduced in 1973 as a premium compact rangefinder camera with a 40mm Summicron lens as well as a 90mm f4,...
4 August, 2024
5 Frames of Iceland (on Portra 400 and HP5+)
I’ve been trying to write this for over seven months, yet I can still remember the trip quite vividly. In November 2023, my wife and I were planning a trip to Iceland after a ra...
