Medium Format Acquisition For a while now I've been looking for a good MF camera, my first thought was a Mamiya RB 6x7 then I became in...

More Paper Tests This morning yet more packages of paper arrived, some A3+ Fotospeed Fineart gloss and a test-pack of Hahnemühle paper. Afte...

Liquid Sky Sometimes it pays to look up! this shot was one of those moments where I saw the sky, got out the camera and took a couple of sho...

Scanning Film Sooner or later most film camera users will need to digitise their work. Some (like me) prefer to go from film to digital befo...

Paper Chase During the last week or so I've been trying out lots of different paper combinations on my new Epson R2400, trying to arrive...

Back to the Future Kodachrome, ah yes that wonderful historic slide film! The first roll I used was about 25 years ago, it came back after t...

Printing My Images Well I finally did it, I bought myself an ink-jet printer. After the recent closure of my favourite Pro-lab I was left in...

Getting Closer Recently I was looking though a junk shop when I came across what looked to be a leather lens case. After opening and looking...

Photophilia These are two Kodacolor™ films I found in a local camera shop today. they expired in 1983 so I doubt I'll try them. The rea...

Mechanical Manual Cameras The Nikon F2. The little collection above is my 1977 Nikon F2 in a Nikon case. The case has room for 3 lenses in a...

An Un-acceptable Pastime? Most days I carry a camera with me, normally my M4P. Today was no exception, even though the rain was falling out ...

The Light Fantastic Autumn light, soft warm and perfect for the colours of the dying trees. This time of year has to be one of my favourite ...

A Months Wages That was the cost of my first Leica, a 111c model made in 1947 and with it I purchased a Elmar 50mm F3:5. Why did I make this...

Guessing Exposures With Manual Cameras The Sunny Sixteen Method My Leica 111c left the Wetzlar factory in 1947, at the time very few (if any...

My hand-held light meter Most of the photographers I know don't even own one of these beasts, probably wouldn't know how to use one ...

Rodinal Agfa Rodinal has been in production for over 100 years, and despite rumours to the contrary, it is still produced and available to...

My Leica What makes Leica special? The Leica was the first practical miniature format camera. Invented by Oskar Barnack in order to take pic...

Monochrome Early Days I think most of the best images I've made have been in Black and White. Personally I feel the colour in some phot...

Kodachrome This film has been around since the mid 1930's and for me defines colour photography in the 20th Century. The image above wa...

As the inexorable march of digital technology penetrates deeper into the world of photography, why are there still proponents of the 'ol...