A balanced, three course meal of photography, tech and repair
A balanced, three course meal of photography, tech and repair
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 were so old that they have started to decay or…
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 camera that certainly did enough as a “proof of concept”…
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 disappointingly flat and have a nasty habit of fading or…
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 a camera and my ideas or motivation behind each image…
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 and pulling are photographic terms for using a film beyond…
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 shared and I can reunite them with their original owners.…
A couple of weeks ago my fridge was looking rather sad and empty. The film shelf was down to the last few rolls and it was time to stock up again whilst I still had the money before the cold sets in and I have to divert cash to inconvenient…
2024 update: I recently bought the standard battery grip and went through the process of converting my 1N-HS into a 1N, it’s worth reading my experiences there alongside this review – that should give a complete picture of the whole 1N experience in all configurations. Original review: It was inevitable,…
When Canon released their first DSLR, the D30 in October 2000, things began moving incredibly quickly in the digital imaging space. Canon were playing catch up, most notably to their chief rivals Nikon. The three megapixel D30, whilst a superb digital camera in its own right, was not a professional…
I’ve recently spent some time restoring and using a few simple box style 120 film cameras in the form of the Ross-Ensign Ful-Vue, Ful-Vue Super and Ilford Envoy (coming soon to a Ravioli themed site near you). The Ensign cameras were designed to mimic the much more expensive Twin Lens…
It happens to everyone. One day you pick up a camera with every intention of making some images and then… nothing. No inspiration, no motivation, seemingly no opportunities or something always gets in the way of that opportunity. Maybe the last roll of film didn’t turn out as you expect,…
In 1963 Canon introduced a rather unusual “sports action” camera called the Dial 35. The dial in the name doesn’t refer to the large knob on the side, rather the plastic ring surrounding the lens which adjusts the amount of light hitting the light sensor. This apparently resembled the popular…