Camera No. 25. Nikon L35AF2 The Nikon L35AF2 / One Touch was introduced in the mid-1980s. It's the successor to the L35AF, the Nickon's first autofocus compact camera. It retained the useful fixed 35mm f/2.8 lens, but placed it in a lighter, more conventionally styled body with automatic focusing, programmed exposure, motorised film advance and built-in flash. The close-focus or “Macro” setting…
Camera No. 20. Ricoh FF-9SD Limited Edition Another Ricoh FF-9 - but this one is the Limited edition I reviewed the Ricoh FF-9, a relatively cheap but highly versatile and good imagine making camera, in Part Two of my project (it is camera number 8). I liked it very much a very respectable 43 score. But this Limited Edition is a work of art in itself. It's basically a fully transparent functioning…
Camera No. 15. Fuji DL-500 Wide Date Another excellent Fuji compact – this one from 1990. I really like the concept of this camera. Instead of having a zoom it has two fixed focal lengths: 28 and 45mm. If I was going to choose just two focal lengths these would probably be the ones I would choose – 28mm is usually my standard wide and anything between the 40-50mm perfect for normal. And maybe…
Camera No. 8: Ricoh FF 9-S If the number of hits per roll of film was the test, then this camera, previously unknown to me, might even win, and would certainly be up there as one of the best. Even with an expired old film, and even though I had never used one before. I’d noticed it trending as a cheap entry level all-purpose compact point and shoot. Value for money it certainly is, I bought one…
The Compact Point & Shoot 35mm Project started in the summer of 2024, when I had a crush on compact 35mm film cameras. I have always loved my trusted Contax T2, and often the Yashica T3 and T5 also. When younger, pre-digital, I went about 10 years with an Olympus Mju. I gradually built a small collection of compact cameras. Having taken the T2 on a Brighton Photo Walk in June 2024, I decided to…
13: Hasselblad 500 c/m This is Part 4, the final part (for now, at least) of my ‘Months in Medium Format’ film project. I started it at the end of 2023, thinking it would take up most of 2024. It did, but by the summer I had also started another project, using and reviewing dozens of my 35mm film compact cameras. I interspersed them with the occasional further medium format camera I had not got…
I bought the Fuji GFX 50S II in early February 2024 – my first ‘medium format’ digital camera I started a medium format film project in December 2023, gradually going through many of my medium format film cameras with a couple of rolls of 120 film or so. Not all. Not my Twin Lens Reflexes (I have about 15 just of those), as I had done a project just on TLRs a few years before – using and reviewing…
These photos are from chapter 5, the last chapter of my photography book, Cambodia - Darkness & Light - which you can preview by clicking the link . You can read about, and see photos from the pervious 4 chapters in earlier posts in this blog. This chapter is called 'Back to the Orphanage'. I was so captivated with the photographs I took on my first trip, especially at the orphanage that I…
These photos are from chapter 4 of my photography book, Cambodia - Darkness & Light - which you can preview by clicking the link . You can read about, and see photos from the pervious 3 chapters in earlier posts in this blog. Below is what I wrote to accompany this chapter... T The stench of the landfill was visceral It wasn’t just a smell, Every breath hurt like your insides would come out. I…
The Orphanage - 1 The Orphanage, is the name of the second chapter of my book: "Cambodia: Darkness & Light." The Orphanage - 2 Earlier chapters can be found here (Angkor) and here (Phnom Penh). The Orphanage - 3 The Orphanage - 4 This is what I wrote at the beginning of the Chapter: Between the cracks of the bloated makeshift slum, A child beckoned my towards this community. Boxers boxing,…
