A day when everything happened unplanned. While developing some films for my son I had trouble loading the reel; was it me? the reel? the film? the camera? I had recently bought...
I remember one day, I walked into a camera store near the British Museum and handled a Rolleiflex for the first time. It felt precious, a marvelous piece of mechanical engineeri...
In 2022 I visited the churchyard at St Mary the Virgin at Horton near Blyth to shoot one of my favourite subjects – memorial stones. There has been a church on this site s...
I’m lucky enough to be able to spend a couple of months in Chengdu, China each year as part of my job and usually stay in the central part of town. I take a different film camer...
After reading an interesting post from Geoff Chaplin about processing 35mm Rollei RPX 25 in 1:100 Rodinal semi-stand rated at ISO 100 I thought it could be a good match for 16mm...
My success rate with the Moskva (Moscow) 4 camera I bought a year or so ago has not been good. Until recently only a few times have I managed to get even half a roll of useable ...
It’s only over the past 12 months or so that I’ve rediscovered film photography. Back when I was in college, it was the only option – I’m old enough to pre-date digital &#...
I really enjoy using 16mm film and I now have three cameras taking this stock, one 16mm and two 110 of Minolta and Pentax manufacture. My favourite film so far is Rollei’s Super...
