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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 […]

Now then, here’s a review I’ve been meaning to write for a long time. I’ve been using a Kodak Retina II for nearly a year (first a type 011, then a type 014) and it’s consistently made me question why […]

An impromptu trip to the seaside. Took my OM1n to do some triple exposures on expired film with, as well as my Super Baldax and newly acquired Kodak Retina II. There was lots of camera juggling and a small quantity […]

Continuing documentation of the scabby corners of my home town in the UK.

Couldn’t stay away Looks like I’m reviewing a Minox again… I previously owned a 35GL and covered most of the points of what makes these cameras so incredible, and now I have in my mitts a 35ML, the most full-featured […]

This October my exemplary wife took me to Reykjavik for a few days for my birthday. Iceland has been on each of our ‘must visit’ lists for years and despite the absence of any Northern lights due to cloud, the […]