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...
20 October, 2024
The night Venice talked to me
The dark, silky, smooth waters of the canals are silent now, only a few late boats are disturbing the lights that are dancing in the rhythm of the waves. Where there were armies...
17 October, 2024
Leica R3 – a camera I was never expecting to buy!
If I hadn’t looked at a certain film camera shops website after I was advised of the bulk movie b/w film they are re-spooling and selling very cheap, I wouldn’t have...
27 September, 2024
5 Macro Frames with a Canon EOS 30 & MP-E 65mm
I do macro photography. I have an Canon MP-E 65mm EF 1-5x macro lens. I have a Canon EOS 30 film camera with EF mount. There was only one way this was going to end. I loaded up ...
24 September, 2024
NEWS: Ilford Photo Celebrating 145 years History with Limited Edition Retro Packaging
Running a branding company as I do, I find this sort of thing very cool. Ilford photo will be selling some of their film range in these limited edition 1950s inspired boxes. In ...