5 Frames Pedalling to York with a Voigtlander Vito II - Sam Knight
Travelling by bicycle has long been something I enjoy. Why though had I decided on a bicycle trip to York? A long time cycling friend of mine moved to Edinburgh a few years ago and we’d worked out that halfway between his house and mine was York! A weekend bike ride of 210 miles each would mean a proper catch-up over a decent meal and a few (too many) beers. The bicycle and the camera work well together, it’s easy to stop when you’ve spotted an interesting subject to shoot; something that’s harder when travelling by car: plus you can still travel a decent distance in a day by bicycle with relative ease.
5 Sheets of Cámara Galletita Lumen Photos - By Sonny Rosenberg
The Cámara Galletita Lumen is always a bit difficult for me to explain, but it's antecedents are, I think, a bit more straightforward. I first heard of the Cámara Galletita in this excellent article on Casual Photophile by Sroyon Mukherjee. In essence, the Cámara Galletita is a pinhole camera with a cracker for a "lens", a cracker camera. I was immediately intrigued with the idea of a cracker camera and the images of the very funky homemade cracker cameras presented in the article. I definitely wanted to make one, but I had other things at the time that needed attention. Still, I filed it in the back of my mind.
5 Frames of Ilford Fp4+ with a Canon T-70 - By Guillaume Rabuel
I recently sold most of my film cameras collection, as I wanted to travel light, and keep only one. Most of my cameras were collecting dust, filled with old rolls of films and I felt like I didn’t take enough time for each of them. So I kept… the Canonet QL 17. Why am I writing about the Canon T70 then? I wanted to give it one last tribute!
5 Frames on Santa Rae 1000 with a Pentax K1000 - By Conor O'Brien
Being primarily a Nikon and Minolta (film) user, I surprised myself by becoming the owner of a Pentax K1000 recently. I had been in the process of buying a Minolta X300 locally and when I went to collect the camera, the seller asked me if I’d be interested in the contents of a curious looking case he had strategically placed beside the Minolta. As an a addicted film camera collector, I had to look inside the box… after all, you never know !
5 Frames with the Zero Image 6x9 Edition Pinhole Camera – By Rob Willox
All the way back in 2002 when the commercial balance between digital imaging and film imaging was beginning to shift in favour of digital I was loathed to let go of film and still harboured a deep-rooted distrust of it’s digital competitor. This made life difficult since I was a medical photographer working in a department that was fast going digital. In a last attempt to rediscover those heady glory days of when I first discovered photography in 1987 I decided to get myself a posh pinhole camera and take it on many adventures. So I went ahead and splashed out on a Zero Image 6x9 pinhole camera. I think it cost me about £130 at the time…but I was young(ish) and the credit card could worry about that. Admittedly some years later I was forced to worry about the credit card but I digress.
5 frames with the Canon L3, Jupiter 12 lens, and Shanghai Light 400 in London - By Molly Kate
I didn’t intend to buy another camera. Yet, in a way, this camera found me, like a wand to the witch in certain famous fantasy novels by a certain famous fantasy author. The camera is the Canon L3. An underrated rangefinder with no light meter and possibly the best shutter sound in existence. The story of how this camera found me actually begins with a different camera, a FED 2 rangefinder, another underrated mechanical wonder. This time, instead of Japanese design (Canon), it was from the former Soviet Union.
5 Frames With a Minolta XD7 and Vivitar 28-85mm f/3.5-4.5 – Riding Route 101 – By Peter Roberts
One of my childhood memories is of family days out discovering different parts of London by bus in the late fifties and early sixties. Sometimes my father had a particular destination in mind, other times we would just see where the buses would take us. Those were the days when an Oyster was something slippery downed by the dozen by people with more disposable income than we had and a Freedom Pass might have been a song by Pete Seeger. What there was, however, was a Red Rover Ticket which gave unlimited travel for a day on London's red buses.
6 Frames of Architecture on Lomography Redscale – by Christian Schroeder
Christian recently ventured to try out Lomography Redscale film for some of his everyday architectural subjects.
8 Frames Of The Deschutes River Trail With An Olympus 35 RD And Kodak Ektachrome 200 - By Shawn Granton
One of the reasons I love living in Portland, Oregon is the access to diverse landscapes.
5 Frames with the Sigma DP2 Quattro in North Merchiston Cemetery - By Tim Bradshaw
For more than twenty years from 1989 I lived in Edinburgh, and I still have friends there. Like many cities there are a significant number of Victorian cemeteries, gradually falling into decay in a way that allows rather easy romantic memento mori photographs. At some point in the late 1990s to 2000s, the council became alarmed by the prospect that unmaintained gravestones could fall on people, and they would be liable. This is something that happens about as seldom as you might expect: like shark attacks or meteorites falling on people's heads, it happens so rarely that every time it does happen it is in the news. But still the council worried.
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