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In early 2018 I bought a lot of 5 cameras for £5, including postage. The camera I bought it for was the Canon Megazoom 105 (who could resist such a name). Sadly this didn't work...
15 March, 2021
Film Photography is Not about Serendipity (for me)!
I don’t shoot film for the “serendipitous nature” of it. I know this is something a lot of people embrace and get a lot of enjoyment out of when shooting film. But for the large...
When I was a child, I got it into my head that anything that took place before I was born happened in black and white. Not so unusual when most televisions were black and white ...
14 March, 2021
5 Frames with the Haynes Classic Camera Kit – By Alex Wilden
I’ve always wanted to build my own camera. In fact, I bought a 3d printer at the start of 2020 with that intention. While that particular project is ongoing I decided to do some...
13 March, 2021
Markets in Yemen with a Pentax MZ-5 – By Jordi Fradera
Yemen, an impressive country, with a rich folklore and good people but always immersed in problems. In the spring of 1999 I took a tourist trip that I will never forget accompan...
11 March, 2021
How I Lost the Washington Monument – by Simon King
Despite how far I feel I've come both personally and professionally over the last few years there are still times where I'm really knocked back a step, and reminded just how muc...
The Minox 110s was introduced in 1974. The internet tells me that this camera was not produced by Minox at all, but by Balda in Germany, who also were also involved in manufactu...
When Corona made its way into society in early 2020, it was something completely new for the world. Many people, including us, were afraid and were unsettled. How dangerous is t...
