Hassleblad black and white photos of Tower Bridge
I recently spent some time in the capital and I took the opportunity to fire a few shots of Tower Bridge using my Hasselblad 501CM with 80mm Carl Zeiss standard lens and Fuji Acros 100 film. A fine emulsion by anyone’s standards and it happens to be my favourite fine grain B&W film. As usual, I buy it …
Read MoreCamera Thief – Caught, sent down, done
No posts for a while – I’ve been a busy and have been rebuilding my rig having had it all stolen last November. Well, I have some good news. The guy who took my beloved Nikon F5 and lenses got caught! He went to Magistrates Court who sent him to Crown Court where he was sentenced to a not insignificant …
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Recommended UK stockists of photography films
I’m often asked if I know of a good, well informed UK stockist of film. It is certainly true that these days there are very few places that you can walk into and buy packs of film. For 35mm, if you want to walk into a shop and buy it off the shelf, believe it or not but Boots is …
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I now own a Hasselblad – the world of Medium Format awaits!
As many readers will know from previous threads, I had nearly all of my Nikon equipment stolen apart from my 2nd Nikon F5 and some Lee Filters with accompanying adapters, which I thankfully left at home on that dastardly day. My choices were either Re-buy all the same gear I had lost to get back to where I was before, …
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Photos created by Olympus OM-10 Manual Camera with Fuji Pro 800Z film
On Boxing Day, I wrote here about how I had brought my Olympus OM10 SLR camera back into active service (after not using it for 9 years) due to my not having any usable camera equipment (thanks to the thieving weasel that stole it all back in November). I said I’d upload some of the photos once they came back …
Read MoreAre you a Minolta Classic Camera collector? If so, read this!
Some months ago I wrote about my late Uncles Minolta SRT-101 and SR-3 cameras and the fact that I was selling them. Having sold them, I am now selling additional lenses and the other accessories from the 1960′s era, that are signficant and a couple of items are exceptionally rare!! I even had to ask for help with identifying some …
Read MoreMy old Olympus OM10 has been brought back into active service!
It’s Boxing Day 2011, and, on Christmas Eve I was sat troubled by the torment of my stolen camera gear and the fact that I had not yet decided on or purchased my new replacement camera rig (whatever that might turn out to be). “How can I let a Christmas go by without photographing my family?“. And then it dawned …
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