1964. My parents had just sold their service station / taxi / towtruck / mechanical repair business. They decided to take a 12 month sabbatical and dad had bought a caravan shel...
20 October, 2022
Boffin’s Bower Revisited – The First Chapter of an Ongoing Project – By Peter Roberts
In 1977 I was working on secondment at an office on Euston Road in London. I had recently upgraded to a Minolta SRT 303b and happening to see an invitation for entries to a phot...
I got out of film something like 15 years ago. I can't actually remember when precisely I put my film cameras down. My go-to color film was Fujicolor Super 100—plentiful and che...
"Are you interested by this?" My neighbor and friend Philippe, hand widely opened, shows me a yellow canister tagged Gold 200. I grab it, a bit confused:
"I thought you only sh...
According to camera-wiki.org, the Voigtlander Vitoret was in production between 1960 and 1971. At the time this 35mm camera was a low-cost camera for the mass market. It has a n...
22 January, 2022
Canon EF – Shooting in a Castle – By Jordi Fradera
On this occasion it was my friend Josep who lent me his camera that had already been abandoned in a closet for more than twenty years. The first surprise in my hands was to disc...
12 December, 2021
Montserrat Underground – Two visits 25 years apart – By Jordi Fradera
"Mountain sawn by angels", so says the hymn of the Montserrat monastery. This mountain is a symbol of Catalonia and on its steep north slope is located the monastery (720 m.) th...
Once again my friend Enrique has lent me a camera whose previous job was to serve as a decorative object and collect dust. When I saw the Nikon EM the first thing I did was chec...