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These photos were taken with a camera I made with a smashed up plastic point + shoot, the shutter from an old press camera, and assorted lens elements from all over the place. I wind the film a random amount […]

Time for a self-indulgent essay on something that doesn’t impact you in any way; how I finally chose my favourite SLR. In case the title and banner image didn’t give you a hint, it’s the Pentax ME Super. At present […]

Japan was about as mad as I was expecting. Overwhelming, fascinating, ridiculous and beautiful. Second night there, outside Shinjuku station, a guy in a Godzilla outfit with a lightsaber, dancing to a deafening and incoherent saxophone. About sums it up. […]

These first black and white shots came developed and rolled up in a canister amid a box full of miscellaneous photography stuff I got a while ago. Some exciting 80’s car-on-fire action! Also cat.   This second roll was in […]

I’ve been using this little square format Altissa Altix III for a while now, having fixed the sticky shutter and cleaned the viewfinder (if you can even call it a viewfinder). There’s something sort of nostalgic about square images, and […]

I’m currently somewhat immobile due to an onset of spinal stenosis, which usually only happens to elderly people but something about having extra thick bones has caused me to get it at age 31. The giddy thrill. Anyway, I can […]

A few more of my favourite mounds of garbage around Leeds.    

Pocket-sized. A lens on par with the Pen F range. Spring motor drive. Full auto metering. And utterly adorable. It’s the Ricoh Auto Half SL.     FASCINATING BACKSTORY I’ve previously owned a Ricoh Auto Half E, and it basically […]

Earlier in March this year me and Wife went to Inari in Lapland, where a friend of Wife is learning the crafts of the indigenous peoples. I took my newly acquired and dubiously reliable Pentacon Six TL with Biometar 80mm, […]

Having found the requisite patience to let a soaked canister dry for a couple of weeks on the radiator, I have achieved the film soup look I was… looking… for. Look. This was a roll of Agfa Vista 200 soaked […]