The first snow came in early this year in late November, and everybody was excited. It’s an event, when grown-up adults feel as excited as they were back in the days of childhoo...
26 November, 2024
5 frames with an Olympus Trip MD2 and Kentmere 400
While my camera of choice has been an Olympus OM1 for a while now, I am always on the lookout for something cheap and cheerful to stick in my rucksack or pocket for days where a...
6 August, 2024
5 Frames with a Fed-2 – New aspects, old subject
Following up our photo walk last year Tim Wainwright, Bob Janes and I met up at the end of May for another one. This time it was in Greenwich, familiar stomping ground for Bob a...
10 July, 2024
5 Frames with a Nikon FE and a Stroke of Luck
I had a Nikon FE camera many years ago, when they were first released. I remember seeing it for the first time while unpacking a slit lamp, an optical device used in ophthalmolo...
15 June, 2024
One Photographer and Two Cameras for Spares & Repairs
My last article, Two Photographers, One Camera, and the Crushing Disappointment of Film, attracted a fair amount of comments—encouraging and not-so-encouraging. The results from...
10 June, 2024
5 frames with a Nikon FM2 & Kentmere 400 pushed to 3200
I am definitively a newcomer when it comes to film photography. Apart from a few rolls taken with point-and-shoot cameras as a child, I was shooting only digital until I picked ...
20 December, 2023
5 Frames With a Trip 35 – A Brace of Olympi Pt. 2
Olympus compacts seemed to have been like London buses for a while round our way. No sooner had I caught the XA2 than it was closely followed by a Trip 35 at the same charity sh...
13 December, 2023
5 Frames With an XA2 – A Brace of Olympi, Pt. 1
Love them or hate them, and personally I love them, charity shops (read thrift stores or op shops if you will) have become a ubiquitous feature of most high streets. At their pr...