Praktina FX
1953: Kamera-Werkstätten’s great leap forward in SLR photography.
film photography
Canon FT QL
1966: Canon’s quick loading, mid sixties FL mount SLR was built to last.
A Lot of the Time, I Don’t Want a Predictable Outcome
Over time, I have become less interested in the predictable photographic outcome and in digital photography’s supreme triumph in image fidelity. You can feel a bit jaded by one two…
River of Dreams
Some introductory notes on documenting a journey, within and without. It seems a very long time ago since my brother, two nephews and good friend Geoff embarked on a journey…
The Number of the Beast
Well, I have developed another roll of Tri-X from the South Downs walk back in May. I am going through the negatives and scanning choice frames. Then I will be…
Surprise Supplies
One 4LR44 battery, a Fujica ST901 SLR, and a happy photographer. For my Edge of Town project (whose gallery I really must update), I have chosen to use Pentax screw…
Backlog
I have some films to develop. It would be wise if I developed these first before taking any more; or would it? It never stopped Garry Winogrand. He left behind…
Automatic for the People: Nikon TW Zoom
The second post in a series about ‘classic’ point and shoot auto focus film cameras I had no intention of buying an auto focus compact camera with a zoom lens.…
Some Thoughts on Photography
Photography widens your horizon by narrowing your field of view. Photography is comforting company when you are lonely, and glorious solitude when you want to be alone. It soothes you…
Automatic for the People: Introduction
A new series about ‘classic’ point and shoot auto focus film cameras The photographs of my ‘Edge of Town’ project, which I started some weeks before this blog, are taken…