A balanced, three course meal of photography, tech and repair
A balanced, three course meal of photography, tech and repair
If you’ve no interest in video and just want to take decent digital photos, there is a wealth of choice for the budget photographer. You absolutely do not need 20mp resolution, 100 point dual pixel auto focus, 12fps capability to…
Canon kicked off the new millennium with the release of their first fully home grown digital SLR – the D30. This marked a turning point for Canon as they focussed all their efforts on the newly emerging digital market. The…
2004 was a momentous year for Canon and their rapidly evolving lineup of digital SLR cameras. In the space of 12 months photographers were treated to two incredible professional tools in the shape of the 1D mark II and 1D…
A few years back I became a collector, or more accurately a hoarder, of old games consoles. If you can recall it from your youth, I had it. This compulsive collecting started out quite innocently – I wanted a Sega…
I admit it. I made a mistake. I recently acquired a carrier bag stuffed with negatives from films shot by my Grandfather and had begun the time consuming task of scanning them all in an effort to preserve them. Some…
Very recently I tested out two instant print cameras, the Fujifilm Instax Mini 11 and the Kodak Printomatic. The less said about the Instax the better. The Zink based Printomatic had one or two flaws but wasn’t an inherently bad…
One thing that is so sorely missing from photography in modern times is physical prints. Whilst it is possible to pop to the supermarket and offload photos from your phone or memory card, the quality of those prints are always…
It’s time to walk through and review the shots from a recent roll of film shot in Birmingham. This is an opportunity to reflect, learn and to tell the stories and thinking that goes on during a walk around with…
This was going to be an article about my experiences of push processing film from 400 to 800 for the first time. For those of you who are new to film, or if you’ve never heard these terms before, pushing…
Every now and again I’ll pick up a used and exposed film from Ebay just to recover the memories that have been left behind. There’s always the hope that someone will stumble across the page, or the images might be…