My wife and I usually spend some time somewhere in the warm sunny south over the course of our too long winters in Ontario Canada. Not so this year. We were however looking fo...
I absolutely love long exposure night time photography, for me its a far more spiritual mindful time to shoot and that element of doubt and anticipation of just what you are goi...
20 April, 2023
5 Frames with an Olympus OM1, a roll of HP5 and a Bridge
I have a few film cameras that all mean something emotional to me (my Olympus XA2 I won in a photographic competition aged 12, my OM1 was my only camera for about 20 years until...
16 April, 2023
5 Frames with the Kodak Retina 1a & Very Expired Ilford FP4
Word is, Folding Kodak Retinas are a lovely piece of kit, provided your winding mechanism isn't broken. I had a beautiful Retina iia with a dodgy winder. F2 Schneider lens, nice...
23 March, 2023
5 Frames at the Gallery with a Nikon FM – By Tony Joslin
To add another dimension to my visit to the 'Air' exhibition at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, I decided to take my camera along. The gallery environment provided plenty of i...
I like knowing how things work. This is partly why I took up film photography in the first place, because I wanted to understand how pictures could be made. However, I’m not in ...
Over the course of 2023, I’ve decided I’m going to shoot a roll of film every week. 52 films sounds both like not very much, and yet also an absolutely enormous number. 52 weeks...
15 February, 2023
Appreciating the Challenges of Photography in 1932 (5 Frames with a Leica II & Elmar 5cm f/3.5 Lens) – By Reed George
Leica rangefinder cameras have defined small format photography from its beginning and persist to the current day. Maybe you know about the digital rangefinders, including the M...