26 May, 2026
Rollei Blackbird Creative Film
Rollei Blackbird Creative film at ISO 100 in a Canon 7 with Industar 26M lens.
22 October, 2025
Minolta a-9 – Raspberry Picking in September with a 24mm f2.8, Red 25 Filter and Rollei Retro 80s
It was a lovely day in early September, a month where I’m often filled with anxiety; dreading the coming Winter and the end of the brief days of fine weather of Spring and...
15 October, 2025
Was it to be my last ever click of a shutter?… With a Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7 50mm f2.8 Macro and Rollei Retro 80s.
I took these, all from a roll of Rollei Retro 80s developed in Rodinal, back in 2017. It was a time when I was left with just one SLR; a Minolta Maxxum 7 and one lens – a ...
23 April, 2025
5 Rushed Frames with a Canon EOS3 and an EF 14mm f/2.8L ii.
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...
30 November, 2024
Shooting in a cemetery leads to uncovering a local tragedy (and then another). Dangerous currents.
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...
7 November, 2024
People’s Park Chengdu with an Olympus XA3 and expired Rollei RPX 400
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...
1 October, 2024
5 Frames with a Minolta 16MG and Rollei RPX 25
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...