A 35mm Canon F1.8 for my Leica Since I first started photography in the late 1970's my lens of choice has been the 50mm. It just seemed ...

The Price of Perfection 'Quality' What does it mean? To the average person it's the clearest, sharpest noise/grain free image th...

Going... Going... Gone? The end for Kodachrome? I was browsing the internet today when I read this post . I trust the poster, I've seen ...

Winter Photography One of the most difficult times of the year for me to take images is in the winter. When I leave for work in the morning ...

Pentax Pictures As you will know if you read this blog I recently acquired a Pentax 6x7, not my first Medium Format camera (by a long shot) ...

Autumn Colours and Missed Opertunities Just last week I was driving down a street in my town and was amazed by the fantastic colours of the...

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...