I help as a guide in running members’ tours around the East Lancashire Railway, a large heritage railway based in Bury, near Manchester. These monthly tours are well attended. O...
14 June, 2020
5 Frames with a Zeiss 35mm f/2.8 C Biogon, Leica M6 and T-Max400 at EI400 – by Phil Harrison
The lockdown has given people plenty of opportunity to buy stuff they can't afford and don't really need, I know, I'm one of them. I'd been thinking about replacing the 7Artisan...
19 February, 2020
Pushing T-Max 400 to EI3200 with a Leica M3 Monochrom and First-Gen Summilux 35mm f/1.4 – Steven Bleistein
If you shoot monochrome film, you don’t have to make do with shooting at box speed if it is a higher speed that you want, and if that is the case for you, you should not hesitat...
3 January, 2020
5 frames with an Asahi Pentax K1000 – By Oscar Capdevila
Entering the world of film photography was a bit painful for me as I didn’t get to see the results from the first 2 film rolls I shot. The first one was loaded incorrectly and t...
6 October, 2019
5 Frames with Kodak T-Max 400 – by Simon King
T-Max 400 has an odd place in my film workflow, as although I rate what it offers aesthetically very highly, I find myself choosing not to shoot it that often, opting instead fo...
27 August, 2019
5 Rural Japan Frames with a Leica M6J, a Summilux 50mm f/1.4 pre-asph., on Kodak T-Max 100 – Steven Bleistein
The Leica Summilux 50mm f/1.4 remained basically unchanged in its second version from 1961 until 2004, after which the aspherical model replaced it. Only the barrel design chang...
I've decided to start a photography project. I’ve had some sort of ill-founded fear of such things for quite some time now, but thanks to a few inspiring words from Rob Knight o...