At the westernmost point of Oahu, the Hawaiian Island that is home to Honolulu and Waikiki Beach, is an area of desolate beauty called Kaena Point. Now a state protected nature ...
20 August, 2020
5 Frames with Fujifilm Neopan 1600 – by Simon King
Despite my previous efforts to demystify this deceased Fujifilm stock I still have something of an attachment to the idea of shooting Neopan designated films, so when I found so...
I acquired my Mamiya 6 MF and all three lenses just under 20 years ago, after deciding against a long-held aspiration of getting a Hasselblad. A decision I haven’t regretted. Th...
14 August, 2020
39 Slides / A Whole Roll of Fujichrome Sensia 100 (expired 2006) – #FullRollFriday – by Simon King
Slide film is still very much a "special purpose" medium for me, which means my use in general is restricted let alone experimentation with expired options. So far I've enjoyed ...
I can’t remember where I first saw this camera, but somewhere along my journey through the world of rangefinders about the same age as me, the Pax M4 came to my attention. It wa...
12 June, 2020
23 frames / A Whole Roll of Fujifilm Superia 400 in a Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim – #FullRollFriday – by Charles Higham
No doubt like many, I've taken the enforced opportunity to tidy up photographic equipment and general detritus. There's an embarrassing number of old film compacts, SLRs and len...
It would have been around late 2014 sometime when I walked into the London Camera Exchange on The Strand. I didn’t know it at the time but I was about to make a huge mista...
Recently I had the opportunity to work as a still photographer in a movie that was being shot on the island. With it being a long time since doing this type of assignment and it...