Minolta V2 I have a friend who delights in giving me cameras to try. Unfortunately, they don't always work. Then, if they do work, there are often other issues at play. This camera experience was no different. Just when I thought things were going to go smoothly, I had film issues. Once I had…

Exhibitions and Projects Update The low down...as per usual, I have too many projects on the go. First, I have a solo exhibition running from 20th November to 19th December. You can see it at HIVE Coffee and Bakehouse, Blackpool. It is run in conjunction with HiveArts, the gallery upstairs.…

What a Drongo! – Bulk Loading Film Issues The title of this post was named by Theo from Photo Thinking. I asked a group I am in if it is possible to tell a 100 or 400 film from just looking at it. The reason is that, for the last two weeks, I have used either bulk-loaded Exeter 100 or 400, and the…

How the hell did we cut up turnips for Halloween when we were little? Just cut one up for stew and I needed a hammer and chisel.

Just delivered my photos for a solo exhibition at Hive Gallery, Blackpool. Starting 18th November until 5th December

Spent yesterday using the Fakmatic from @camerhack.bsky.social with a couple of instamatic cameras. It worked really well.

The Photozine Collective: Vivid A while ago I was asked to contribute to the Opaque zine from the Photozine Collective. That was fun, but a little stressful, so I decided not to participate in their next publication…But I couldn't resist and changed my mind. The theme word changed, and so did the…

Throwback Anyday: Bumper Crop from February 2017 I haven't done one of these posts for a while, and at this rate, I will never catch up. But here are the posts from early 2017. This era was still at the beginning of my return to film journey, and I was deep into junk cameras. I am sorry you can't…

Photo Post: Olympus OM4 in Highgate Cemetary I have been saving these photos for Halloween, not that I think cemeteries are scary, but it seemed to fit. Then I thought, nah, better for after. I took a trip to London earlier in the year to see the London Photo Show, and I used some spare time to…

Cosina PM-1 I have tried to buy this camera a couple of times. I yearned for a camera with my name on it, and I couldn't afford the 'Peggy'. But then I saw this one, with my initials. Oooh nice, maybe I could get this camera and give it a funky skin to match 'me'. I ordered one from the bay, but…

Photo Post: Digital Infrared conversion and Coloured Filters I recently showed a few people how to convert a compact digital camera to infrared by removing the blocking filter. When I originally did this, I stuck to taking black and white photos with either a red or infrared filter. I didn't like…

Ilford In Focus Feature Last month, I was the subject of the 88th Ilford In Focus feature. This is where they interview photographers about their work and favourite Ilford films. I was asked a while ago, but I thought, me?? No, I am not that person. Eventually, I had a rush of confidence and said…

Photo Post: Photowalks – Woking, Holmfirth, Howarth I have been on a few photowalks recently with mixed results. I really enjoyed the walks and chatting with people, but my results were not my best. First, I joined a walk run by Holmfirth Photosocial, incorporating their HŐME exhibition. I took…

Canon Sure Shot Supreme (Autoboy 3, Top Shot) I was feeling a bit bored and wondered if I could get an f2.8 fixed-lens point-and-shoot as cheaply as possible. Yes, I got this one for £10 from the bay. Would it be as good as other famed f2.8 cameras? I was a little disappointed it was a Sure Shot,…

Miranda FV T This camera was on a table of 'give-aways' at the Boston Camera Fair. I think the seller didn't want to pack up all the stuff he had brought, so he put a message on the table, "Free to Take". I took this with no expectations of whether it worked or not. I was drawn to the look of the…

Photo Post: More from North Wales I recently wrote about the Pentax 17, and many of the photos were taken in North Wales. Of course, I also took a couple of other cameras, so I thought I would post those photos too. I took 3 cameras in all, and chose 3 different formats. The Pentax was a…

World Half-Frame Day – Leeds A week ago, it was the first "World Half-Frame Day." I had organised a walk in Leeds, along with all the other walks available on the Photowalk.me website. A few people turned up, luckily I knew them all, and they were all friends. That made it a delightful, relaxed…

What I am Reading: Other Blogs Feed I have read lots and lots of photography books over the summer, but I wanted to add a couple of blogs to my 'feed from other blogs' page. At the top of the page, you will see two new-to-me blogs. They are not really new ones that I just started reading, I just…

Rollei 35 T I have only put one film through this camera, but I wanted to write the post as soon as possible. I am sure you will be seeing this camera in the photo posts in the near future. I saw the Rollei for sale on Facebook Marketplace, very close to my house. The price had been dropped for a…

Photo Post: Mamiya C2 and Camden 200 Monochome Slide Film A few weeks ago, someone asked for volunteers to try out a new film in a WhatsApp group I am part of. I put my hand up and said, "Yes, please" So here we are, a new post about something I have never tried before, a black and white reversal…

Adding a Colorful Skin to a Kiev 4 Please excuse the lack of a U in the colourful title. It bothers me a bit, but it is necessary in this case. This week I received a lovely package in the mail...post if you are English 🙂 It was sent from Colorful Analogue Cameras in Lithuania. I want to be…

Develop A Difference: Buy Local Honey I love honey on my cereal for breakfast and used to buy it during my weekly shop at the supermarket, but not anymore. Having read about why it is important to buy local foods, especially honey, I decided to search for a local apiarist. Searching Facebook…

Pentax 17 A while ago, I wrote about 'Project 17'. My aim was to sell cameras and stuff I was no longer using to raise enough money for a Pentax 17. Well, here we are! Erm... no, actually. A lovely friend lent me this one. I decided not to save for one, as the comments from the post about the…

Photo Post: Lucky SHD 400 and DC Figurines My friend with the DC models bought some new ones! Last time I shot them with the Contax 137 MA, this time I used the Canon A1 and a new-to-me film. I still used a Cokin close-up filter and the desk lamp; only the lens and camera were changed. I love…

Photo Post: Miranda MS-1n and Kodak Double Plus X I have been shooting lots over the past few weeks due to the summer holidays and the drought-inducing weather. Though I have lots of cameras to play with, some new, some borrowed, I returned to this reliable Miranda for a few days out. It was…

Olympus 35 SP Two years ago, I wrote about the top 5 cameras I yearned for. This one was on that list, and one of my friends recently bought one. He remembered that post and offered it to me as a loaner. So now I have it, what do I think? Well, it looks amazing. Apparently, it was Ansel Adams'…

Photo Post: Harman Phoenix II and Tatton Park In my last post, I said I would upload the rest of the new Phoenix film. Well, here it is. I used a Pentax Espio 170 SL and wandered London after the parade. Then I finished the film around my home and at Tatton Park near the Japanese Garden. The…

Chinon AP700S This is an APS double exposure day! I saw this camera for sale on Facebook Marketplace. It was £15 but came loaded with half a roll unexposed and 3 unused films. I didn't need the camera, but felt I could not pass up the film at that price. It even came with the instructions, where…

Photo Post: Finally a working Nikon Pronea S and Phoenix II Six years ago, I wrote, "...this camera is truly crap. This is now the third one I have tried and no more." Well, famous last words, because here I am, and I find myself with another and IT WORKS!! Well, it did for this roll, and to be…

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Throwback Anyday: A Bumper Crop from January 2017 I have updated the posts from this month, but some of the photo galleries seem to have a formatting issue. They are fine when you click on the galleries and scroll through them, but look squished if you look at them on the actual blog. The only way…

Voigtlander Superb I bought this camera just after the Voigtlander month I had a little while ago. I saw it on Facebook marketplace for £100 and thought I would take a look. It involved a 2-hour round trip, but if it was working...Then I thought it would be worth it. When I had the camera in my…

Vintage Ilford Mystery Bulk Film This is another post I have been meaning to write for a while, now I have the time 🙂 I bought a mystery bulk roll of film from eBay. The seller had no idea what it was or if it was viable, other than it being Ilford. Here is the tin. I loaded it into spare…

Photo Post: Nikon N2000 and the Series E F/1.8 lens I wrote a post a while ago about a camping trip to Ironbridge. Of course, I took more than one camera so here are more photos from that trip. I love a good bridge. The first set was taken with a roll of Kodacolor 200. I used my new Nikon Series E…

I completely forgot my website publishes here automatically. There are too many platforms!

Purma Speed Well, these past two weeks have been a bit dramatic for me, hence the delay in any posts for this blog. More on that at the end, but for now...the Purma Speed. I never thought I would get one of these. They are rare and out of my price range, but then this one came up on the bay, and I…

Nikon Zoom 500 AF Recently, I organised a walk around Wakefield for the Big Film Photowalk. Unfortunately, the camera I loaded my Kodak Pro Image film into had a winding issue that I didn't notice. It meant that at the end of the day, I hadn't really taken any photos except for 36 on one frame.…

Photo Post: Pentax SV and a very expired Kodak Vision 800t  I have had a damaged film in my 'to-use' box for ages. I got a very expired bulk roll of Kodak Vision 800t ages ago, and I have only used it once before. The results were a bit meh, so I didn't use it again. But, I have decided to use up…

Pentax MX This is a bit of an odd post for me, as I don't have the camera in my possession anymore. So this is all based on memory or research. It is another camera I was asked to sell by my friend. There are just two cameras in the box now, and I am currently testing one of them. To be honest,…

Visiting Photo London 2025 and meeting Ching-Hui Chou This post is a tiny bit late in being published, seeing as Photo London 2025 was back in May and it is almost July. But life happens. Never mind, we are here now 🙂 I booked tickets and a hotel to stay in London for the full weekend, which in…

Agfa Optima Parat Another borrowed camera. But I am so tempted to buy this one from my friend. I mean, look at it... It was produced around 1964 and has a classic look, plus it was so clean and shiny. The functions were very smooth, and the light meter worked, too. It has an f/2.8 30mm lens with…

Lomography Kompakt Horizon This is another borrowed camera, I am borrowing rather than buying these days. I am keeping my G.P.S. counter going. This one is the Lomography swing lens panoramic camera. The first thing I needed to do was load it. Simple, right? No, I wasn't sure how to thread the…

Photo Post: Ikon Nettar and Bleaklow I have already posted about my walk to Bleaklow, but I am going through my draft folder and found another set of photos. This time, they were taken with a 6x6 camera, the Ikon Nettar. It is the perfect medium-format camera for hiking as it collapses quite…

Photo Post: MTL5 in Leicester I wrote recently about a photowalk in Leicester, where I picked up some rolls of Harman Red. It was too dark and wet that day to try it, so I loaded some Exeter 400 and pushed it to 800. I was a bit cheeky and took my MTL5, which I had recovered in Nottingham Forest…

Minolta AL-F This is another camera I got from a friend. He asked me to sell some at a fair. I sold a few, but not all, so I could play with them afterwards. I decided to try this one first as it was so clean-looking. The rangefinder patch was fairly clear, and the light meter responded as it…

Big Film Photowalk 2025 – Wakefield !!! Welcome to the Biggest Concurrent UK Film Photowalk of 2025! Organised by Analogue Wonderland. With multiple locations around the country, the plan is that everyone will be within a reasonable distance from a photowalk that suits them. You can read about…

Photo Post: Harman Redscale On a rainy day, I headed to Leicester to meet a friend and to join an Analogue Wonderland and Harman walk. There was no mention that we would receive a roll of redscale film, but I hoped. True enough, there was a Harman rep with some rolls for us. As it was very rainy…

Photo Post: Two Cameras, one Kodak 200 A while ago, I visited a friend in London to exchange an APS film and camera, a film swap. We had a wander around and visited God's Own Junkyard. It was somewhere I had wanted to go for ages. It was an awful day, raining for most of it. I knew it would be…

Throwback Anyday: A Bumper Crop from December 2016 I highly regret parting with a couple of cameras from this month. The Mamiya 6 and the orange Konica were great, and I loved using them, but I had a lack of funds and space. I just could not bring all my cameras back from Japan. You can tell this…