6 November, 2025
5 Frames at Penmon Point
A trip to north Wales provided a long overdue opportunity for some ‘proper’ photography. To me that means picking up my camera and going out with the sole purpose of creating p...
23 July, 2025
Rollei Retro 400S in Paris, with a Minolta X700
I recently headed back to Paris for a long weekend, for the first time since I started shooting film again. Having taken photos there many times in the past using my digital gea...
I’d wanted to try Harman Phoenix for a while. When it was released in late 2023, there was a lot of excitement for a new colour film – not a repackaged Kodak cine-fi...
14 March, 2024
5 Frames with a Minolta X-700 and Tri-X
When I first got back into shooting film around 2013, the first film SLR I acquired after a brief flirtation with lomography cameras was the Minolta X-700. I got it and a couple...
2 September, 2022
The Whole Roll – 24 exp. HP5+, Minolta x-700, Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 – By Robert Kapp
I desided to write an "Whole Roll" Post. Why? Because my wife allowed it. She's almost on every roll of film I shoot so I of course need her permission to publish those photos. ...
Early last year I ordered a set of four cartridges of Silbersalz35 250D film. Silbersalz35 is a small German film manufacturer that uses Kodak Vision3 motion picture film stocks...
Back in March of this year, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic reached the city I'm currently living in: Edmonton, Alberta Canada.
For a lot of people, there was a feeling th...
23 May, 2018
Minolta X-700 and 45mm f2 Lens – A love story with an uncertain ending – By Torsten Kathke
Love stories come in more dramatic varieties. But they're never more true. The 45mm f2 Minolta MD lens was attached to an SR-T 100x I bought in a now-defunct thrift store in Mun...