Chris Giles

I started taking photographs at high school with a 126 camera and moved on to second hand SLRs when I started earning. My first new camera was a Fujica ST801 which I carried around the world for five years. Totally reliable, I still have it and it still works. Then career & family demands pushed photography into the background for a couple of decades, until recently unearthing my old cameras and firing them up – hooked again! Besides taking and developing photographs, I am also enjoying bringing old cameras back to life.

Chris Giles's Posts

20 February, 2026

Agfa Rapid – Down the Rabbit Hole

By Chris Giles

A year ago I had never heard of the Agfa Rapid system and now I have five Rapid cameras, and counting – what’s going on! I had picked up an Agfa Iso Rapid IF for a dollar, initi...

6 May, 2025

Uncle Jack’s Last Shots

By Chris Giles

There’s something a bit poignant about looking at some images and realizing they were the last photographs ever taken by a person who had an enthusiasm for photography most of t...