Autumn in Ancoats
Freshly returned to Manchester, last October I took the Pentax ME-F, armed with 28mm lens and Ilford FP4+ film, for an autumnal wander around the super hip and fast developing Ancoats area of the city.
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Summer on Slide Film
Last February, for my 40th birthday, one of my friends gave me a bag full of expired but unexposed 35mm cartridges. Three of those rolls were Fuji Sensia slide film. I hadn’t actually shot any slide film since my A-level Photography days, and so was interested to give it another go. Unfortunately the pandemic struck, […]
Read more "Summer on Slide Film"Ferrania P30: A Second Attempt
My first go with Ferrania P30 was not a resounding success, most of the roll coming out extremely thinly in the shadows giving dark images with mostly blown highlights. A sense check of the light meter on my Pentax ME-F showed the camera to be operating normally, so I could rule out any issues there. […]
Read more "Ferrania P30: A Second Attempt"EXPOSED! A check of the light meter on my Pentax ME-F
The unfortunate episode with my first roll of Ferrania P30 led me to conclude the light meter on my Pentax ME-F might be off – or at least thrown off in certain lighting conditions. To test this I bought some reliable Ilford FP4 and decided to do some bracketed test shots, trying out scenes in […]
Read more "EXPOSED! A check of the light meter on my Pentax ME-F"Ferrania P30: My First Failed Go
After diddling around with some low budget black and white films recently, Fomapan, Efke and Kentmere, none of which I found to be especially different to one another, I decided to order a couple of rolls of Ferrania P30. This classic Italian film, newly resurrected from the dead, has had lots of publicity in the […]
Read more "Ferrania P30: My First Failed Go"A New Toy: First Time Out with the Pentax ME-F and Expired Efke 100 film
Just before my 40th birthday in February one of my friends messaged to tell me her mum had some old camera equipment she wanted to get rid of and asked if I was potentially interested in any of it. A few photos were exchanged and in amongst a jumble of compact cameras and camcorders I […]
Read more "A New Toy: First Time Out with the Pentax ME-F and Expired Efke 100 film"Helios 44-2 on the Nikon D750: A Quick Turn Around the Scrubs
London is experiencing a particularly colourful Spring this year, with lots of beautiful bloom everywhere you care to look. As a quick mini lockdown project, I thought it would be fun to take out my Nikon D750 on one of our daily exercise walks around Wormwood Scrubs. Rather than using a regular nifty-fifty Nikkor, I […]
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Many weeks ago, in a time before The Virus, and before The Lockdown, I went on a non-socially distant walk with my mate David, taking in the Grand Union Canal from Kensal Town to Primrose Hill. As is often the case on these occasions, I wanted to take a camera with me. I’d been rooting […]
Read more "Along the Canal to Primrose Hill with the Rollei 35 LED and Kentmere 400"A Photowalk Around the Royal Docks
Last week, on a damp, grey and dreary day, I decided to take a camera for walk around the Royal Docks with my mate Daniel. Starting from Barrier Park and we worked our way towards the North Woolwich Pier Head and onto Gallions Point before finishing at the University of East London campus at Cyprus […]
Read more "A Photowalk Around the Royal Docks"A 60 Year Old Kodak Camera Takes its First Photograph
In the late 1990’s my parents came home from a car boot sale with a bright yellow box that looked like it had just been taken off the camera store shelf. It was immaculate. Inside was a Kodak Brownie 127 Model 2 camera, dating from around 1960. Its wrist strap was still wound up and […]
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