Endeavouring to resurrect this site – with film

I stopped posting to this blog some time ago, the major reason being my health. A secondary reason was my old Minolta scanner gave up and I never liked using the Epson Perfection… Continue reading →

Choosing a pocketable film camera to join the Olympus OM SLRs for my next trip to Romania

In my most recent post here I left open the question of which pocketable film camera I might choose to go along with the SLRs, Olympus OMs. One I pulled out is the… Continue reading →

Olympus OM1 and OM1n look like winning the SLR contest, joined by a Zeiss Ikon folder for 6×9

When I wrote the previous post I was just beginning to think about what film cameras to take on my forthcoming trip to Romania. I was then thinking of an SLR, the OM2n,… Continue reading →

Where have all the film photo bloggers gone? A solution to ‘scanning’ film using a digital camera?

A single blogger who I followed from my other, non-photographic, blog (grumpytyke) has persuaded me to open this other blog of mine and think about beginning to post on it again. It was… Continue reading →

A change of heart – adding iPad pictures and Instagram!

I’m back (after a long absence caused mainly by serious health problems) but not with the pictures I expected – black and whites on film taken either on the Olympus XA or XA4… Continue reading →

Cee’s B&W challenge: Wheels. Contax AX, stand development

I’ve not been able to post anything for the past two of Cee’s B&W challenges but thought I’d use a determined effort to get back into photography on film, including developing the films,… Continue reading →

Contax AX back in service (despite mirror slip), Zeiss Planar, Sonnar, Distagon & Yashica lenses; back-up, Yashica FX-3

My photography, and therefore posting on this blog, being severely limited over the past year by health problems, I’ve been thinking seriously about reducing my ‘user’ camera collection and concentrating on just a… Continue reading →

Seats. Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Table and Chairs, seating of any kind

Above: Yashica 24mm, f/2.8 legacy lens on Olympus Pen E-PL3. Colour image desaturated, inverted and curves adjusted in Photoshop. One Victorian mahogany chair and one modern bar stool. Below:  Same seats, same lens… Continue reading →

Doorways (Cee’s Travel Theme)

I had decided to limit myself to taking part in Cee’s Black & White Challenges, but having just received an email with her latest posting on her ‘Travel theme – doorways’, I decided… Continue reading →