Before Pentax, there was Asahi Pentax. They produced some great cameras. This is the Asahi Pentax S1a. An entry level 35mm SLR. It was known in the US as the Honeywell Heiland Pentax H1a. It is a simple design, but very well made. With no built-in metering, you will need to either learn to judge …
For the first in a series of photographic film reviews, I have chosen the very distinctive look of Cinestill 800T. An ISO of 800 makes it great for night or low light shooting. But unlike others, Cinestill is based on movie stock and is tungsten colour balanced to give a very cinematic look. Also, because …
I once made a video on how to load 35mm film in to a camera. It did not occur to me that I should do the same for 120 film. But as a subscriber to my YouTube channel asked about it, here it is. 120 film, just like 35mm, has many varied cameras but on …
In this post I showed you a way to scan your film negatives. Now I show you how to do it more professionally with the Epson Perfection V600 Photo and Silverfast 9 from LSI. I have more detailed videos planned where I will go in to more advanced features of Silverfast. But, in the meantime, …
The Canon AE-1 Program is one of the most popular 35mm SLR’s ever produced and I still use mine nearly every day. First produced in 1981 as a successor to the AE-1, it introduced a Program AE feature. This meant that with the correct lens fitted, the camera could provide fully automatic aperture and shutter …
Today’s video is the third and final part of my Introduction to Lightroom series. In this one, I show you how to make some basic edits. I purposely don’t go into too much details, but rather focus on the small changes that many of our photographs need. Cropping, healing brush, red-eye removal and some minor …
The 1981 Konica C35 EF3. One of a range of C35 point & shoot 35mm cameras that were made by Konica from 1968 until 1984. They started as rangefinders and later autofocus, but this is one of the zone-focusing models. Mine is black, but they came in various colours and now seem to becoming popular …
City Scape was an image that I had planned for many years. One drawback of living in the United Kingdom, is that we really don’t have the dramatic city skylines of North America. I had long envisaged a look that might evoke the likes of Gotham City or Bladerunner. But New York & Tokyo are …
Another budget film camera in the shape of the 1992 Fuji DL-190 Zoom. A fully automatic 35mm point and shoot camera that can be purchased for around £20. Although I only paid £2 for mine. The “DL” refers to “Drop-In Loading” which is something I have not shown before. A feature that makes loading DX …
Sometimes, a walk into the woods is all you need. Whatever the weather, there is something primeval and regenerative about woodland spaces. The sights, the sounds and the smells, all combine to make us feel something positive. This Featured Image is one I took whilst on a walk in the Wyre Forest on a wet …
