11 January, 2025
5 Shots From Minolta’s Entry Level AF SLR – The Dynax 300si
Quite a few years ago I was gifted a Minolta Dynax 500si. The donor had sold the lens on its own so the body came to me “because I do film photography stuff”. I alre...
10 January, 2025
5 frames with Ilford XP2 film
Ilford XP2 is a black and white film emulsion designed to be processed in C-41 color chemistry. The box speed is 400, but many people shoot it at higher speeds with good results...
These are from my second attempt to take pictures of snow scenes with this camera. On the first the snow was freshly fallen, and the light better, I had set the aperture to f/22...
19 December, 2024
5 frames with a Nikon F4S
For a ‘Full Frame’ camera it is quite heavy. Certainly big, dwarfing my Ricoh KR10 from 1980. But without doubt it’s absolutely gorgeous. In a way it is almost cheating to call ...
6 December, 2024
5 Frames in Berlin with Leica M3 & Ilford HP5
About a year ago, as my wife and I began planning our recent trip to Berlin, Munich and Amsterdam, my thoughts immediately turned to photography. I can’t be the first member of ...
29 November, 2024
5 frames with Beauty Lightomatic II
I had been on the hunt of an analogue range finder camera for a while. Since I don’t plan to switch to another system camera, a fixed lens, affordable one would suit my needs. I...
13 November, 2024
Minolta Maxxum 7000 – Putting a €30 Camera Through Its Paces at Belgium’s Toughest Cycling Race
Belgium’s Tour of Flanders (De Ronde van Vlaanderen) snakes through Flander’s fields on a mixture of well-paved roads and what those in the know call ‘cobbled sectors’: long sec...
11 November, 2024
5 Frames with my Canon A1 and a roll of Ilford Pan F
The Canon A1, released in 1978 was way ahead of it competition and further adding to the “prosumer” camera market. The following is from camera-wiki.org “It wa...