In June 2024, I had a grand day out. My day started with my having one camera in my possession, and concluded with my having four cameras. Here’s the tale of how this happ...
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...
2 August, 2024
5 Frames Around the University of Minnesota
My first camera was a Minolta x-370. It was actually my mother’s camera. I shot that camera with reckless abandon from my teens well into my twenties. My eventual wife enc...
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 ...