The first full week of January saw a gentle dusting of snow descend on Manchester, with the waterways around my new home in New Islington freezing over. The marina and surrounding canals were one of the big reasons I decided to move to this area, having been brought up on the coast in Weymouth I […]
Read more "Capturing Manchester’s Frozen Canals: A Mini Pentax 17 Adventure"I had a bit of a dilemma deciding which camera to take on my little jaunt to Berlin last month – my Pentax 17 or my Pentax ME-F, so I did what everyone does in 2025, I asked ChatGPT. To my great surprise, it didn’t just list the pros and cons of both cameras, it […]
Read more "Pentax ME-F vs. Pentax 17: My Camera Choice in Berlin"I started my half-frame adventures with the Kodak Ektar H35N early last year, getting a bit of a taste for the economical format with a lightweight take-anywhere camera. Just months later the photography world was surprised by the release of the Pentax 17, the company’s first film camera in decades, and it just happened to […]
Read more "Springtime with the Pentax 17"In my last post I talked about my experiences of using the Kodak Ektar H35N “toy” half-frame camera for the first time. Since then, for most of the Spring and Summer of this year, I have had the camera loaded with the brand new experimental colour film from Harman (Ilford), called Phoenix. This weekend I […]
Read more "Harman Phoenix in the Kodak Ektar H35N"Last Christmas saw me receive a new film camera – and not just a “new to me” camera, an actual brand new model – the Kodak Ektar H35N. Introduced in 2023 as a slight update to the previously released H35, it’s a small, cute, light, simple plastic piece that appears to be inspired design wise […]
Read more "Riding the Superloop with the Kodak Ektar H35N"I recently returned from a twelve day “Best of Scandinavia” cruise. As well as taking many photographs and videos on my iPhone, I also took my Pentax ME-F with 28mm Pentax-M lens, loaded with a roll of Ilford FP4+. Each time the ship docked I took the camera ashore and took some views of the […]
Read more "Oops I underdeveloped my holiday photos"A combination of the pandemic, a new job and a new city has meant I’ve almost completely neglected my analogue photography in recent times. However 2023 is a new year, and one my resolutions is to get back on with this blog, and so here I present some pictures from the only two rolls of […]
Read more "Two Films for Two Years"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"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"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"
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