27 February, 2025
TLR Challenge: 6 – Antwerp
We visited Antwerp on a couple of occasions, checking the weather forecast looking for a better alternative than cloudy and dull, but sometimes you just have to go with cloudy a...
23 February, 2025
A Final Chapter for Large Format
Linhof Super Technika. Komamura Woodman 45. Large format.
13 February, 2025
TLR Challenge: 5 – Hamburg
I hate buying presents for birthdays. Generally if I buy something it’s not quite what the recipient wanted. I know my wife likes going to new places particularly in Europe so I...
6 February, 2025
Finding the Best 126 Cartridge Camera – Part I
The 126 Cartridge camera and I were invented around the same time. Meaning about 1962. Kodak introduced 126 cartridge film and these instamatic cameras in 1963. Above is s a pic...
30 January, 2025
TLR Challenge: 4 – Brussels
We travelled to Europe in late Autumn 2024 spending most of the time in Brussels. This mixed collection of photographs was taken on the Rolleiflex GX using Fomapan 100 B&W f...
27 January, 2025
Nikon L35AF vs Konica A4 vs Pentax PC35 AF-M vs Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
My foray into film photography began in an unusual way during the Covid lockdown. While many start small, I dove straight into the deep end with a medium format Bronica SQ-B. To...
21 January, 2025
Heads or Tails? My Camera Choice for 2025
Having sketched out the reasons for my decision to commit to just one camera for the New Year in a previous post, I’ll now walk through the various contenders and reveal m...
1 January, 2025
TLR under Grey Skies – A response to Geoff’s TLR challenge
For months after I got a Mamiya C220, I struggled with focusing. There were all sorts of possible explanations and I even visited an optician to discuss the issue in detail. Fin...