Riding the Superloop with 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 […]

Oops I underdeveloped my holiday photos

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 […]

Two Films for Two Years

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Along the Canal to Primrose Hill with the Rollei 35 LED and Kentmere 400

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 […]

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 […]

Using the Lomography Smartphone Scanner with the iPhone 11 Pro

The Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner was something of an impulse purchase after I spotted it in the shop during a recent visit to the Design Museum. It’s a little gadget for mounting a phone camera in a way that allows you to “scan” 35mm negatives. I was aware the product had come out a fair […]

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