4 March, 2018
Nikon F75 Project – Part 6 – preferences & ideologies
Having “upgraded” from my Nikon F75 to a Nikon F80, this little project has definitely come to an end. In fact, with the F75 being deposited on a particular shelf at work that u...
18 February, 2018
Nikon F75 Project – Part 5 – An afternoon with a zoom lens (and a roll of Portra 800)
Short of lenses attached to various point & shoot cameras it’s been ages since I’ve shot with a zoom. I am of course a prime lens snob. Blah, blah, limitations, blah, blah, smal...
13 January, 2018
Nikon F75 Project – Part 4 – The SLR viewfinder, fundamentally flawed and entirely outdated…?
The biggest issue I have is with the concept of the SLR is the viewfinder. It seems to me that the technology around the SLR viewfinder was flawed from day one, and has now been...
24 December, 2017
Nikon F75 Project – Part 3 – Kodak Portra 800 & Two competing brains at the Christmas Fayre
I talked around the way I think differently with different cameras in my hands in my post about the Lure of the Uncomplicated camera. How the Nikon F75 impacted on my thought pr...
The one feature I’ve always desired from a compact camera is a 50mm lens. I would estimate that around 75% of my photography is shot with a normal focal length. This is actually...
17 December, 2017
Nikon F75 Project – Part 1 – Going off on a tangent from my usual direction of travel
I’ve started a little project shooting a Nikon F75. I’m calling it a project, as I want to differentiate it a little from my normal trials with cameras. My intention isn’t to sh...