Last weekend I took a winter walk on the “Tolkien Trail“, a 10km circular route starting in the Lancashire village of Hurst Green. Apparently this part of the world helped inspire J.R.R. Tolkien’s vision of Middle Earth, so I was excited to see what interesting landscapes would stretch out before me. Accompanying me on my […]
Read more "Pentax ME-F on the Tolkien Trail"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"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"I’ve had my Yashica-635 camera for 20 years, my parents finding it for me at a car boot sale. It’s a twin-lens reflex (TLR), a camera format popularised by Rolleicord and Rolleiflex cameras in the interwar period of the 20th Century. Two lenses sit on top of each other, the bottom one focussed on the […]
Read more "Classic Camera Review: Yashica-635"Back in September Apple announced their new iPhone line-up, with the 8, 8 Plus and X, the latter of which created the most excitement amongst the public, but which also came with a delayed release date and a very expensive price tag. I put myself on the Upgrade Programme in 2016 and so had the […]
Read more "Four Months with the iPhone 8 Plus"It was my birthday yesterday and I thought I’d do a bit of a photo audit of all my analogue cameras, as my collection seems to have been quietly growing out of control over the last few years… So, no less than FOUR Zenits now, although I only use the one I was originally given, […]
Read more "All My Film Cameras"One of the so-called disadvantages of film photography is the fact that you have to wait until the roll is finished before processing and finally seeing what you’ve captured. I’m firmly of the belief that this can well be a good thing too. Quite often I’ll put a film in a camera, take a few […]
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