My Kodak Retina 118: More than a camera
As a professional archivist, understanding the context and provenance of archival material is hugely important. When I look at my camera collecting, I have applied a similar criteria to...
Freezing and Frustrated: A Pentax K1000 story.
I follow a lot of amazing film photographers on Instagram and I’m always intrigued to see what cameras they are using. Recently I noticed that the talented Danielle Wrobleski...
The digitisation of photographic negatives at home
Part one of the 'at home' series focused on the preservation of photographic negatives and briefly touched upon the topic of digitisation. In this post I would like to...
Repairing and shooting my Yashica Electro 35 GS
It is probably clear by now that I have quite a fondness for Japanese manufactured cameras. When I made the decision to add a rangefinder to my collection, I...
Take a trip with the Olympus Trip 35
Keeping with the theme of Japanese manufacturers, I’ll be taking a look at one of the most popular 35mm cameras of all time, the Olympus Trip 35. First manufactured...
Slowing down with my Yashica 635
Like many manufacturers who saw the success of the Rolleiflex, the Japanese manufacturer Yashica, began to release their own Twin Lens Reflex cameras from 1953. These included the...