29 January, 2026
5 frames with Rolleiflex T
Recently I have got lucky to acquire a Rolleiflex T from a friend of mine. He is an acclaimed portrait photographer and instructor with 40 years of experience in photography. Ne...
21 January, 2026
100 or 200 skies – Kentmere vs Kentmere – Not really a fair contest
There is nearly always Kentmere film in the fridge. There are films I would prefer, but Kentmere rarely seems to be out of stock when it is shopping time. With a period of cold ...
17 December, 2025
5 Frames of Croome Panorama Tower
Fairly near where I live there is an observation tower that is under the care of the National Trust, part of the Croome estate, but because it is in the middle of a field a coup...
3 November, 2025
5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too
A while back I picked up a job lot of three cameras for not much money. The one I was after was a Konica C35 EF – which did prove to be exactly what I wanted, but that is ...
1 November, 2025
5 Frames with a Leica 1c
I’ve been a fan of Viewfinder cameras for many years, having owned M’s and Leica III’s in the past, with a IIIa my current camera. I never thought about a Leic...
16 October, 2025
5 Frames with Kentmere 400 along Portugal’s coastline
There was definitely a time where I thought I needed the right camera to make photographs at my highest potential. Piggybacking off my last ‘5 frames’ article, where I suggeste...
30 September, 2025
5 Frames with my Minolta HiMatic 9
Recently I posted a 5 Frames featuring my Minox 35GT, a lovely and tiny 35mm camera which gave me pleasing results. Well, this post is about my recent experience with the latest...
28 September, 2025
5 Frames with a Pentax Pino 35 and Kentmere 400
I think this camera came to my attention as I was browsing through various blogs and reviews about cheap take-anywhere point & shoot types. My own journey down that road had...