Amateur photographer who loves vintage photographic equipment and film. All photographs posted here are shot on film using a variety of different film stocks and cameras, some vintage and some more modern. I hope you enjoy viewing some of these images as much as I have enjoyed creating them.

A little about my photographic journey:

The first camera that I used was a Kodak Instamatic 155X which previously belonged to either my grandparents or my mother. It’s in my hands in my avatar photo. I glued a bit of circuit board to it from an old radio to make it look more exciting! That would have been around 1983 and I would have been age 8 or 9 probably.

My next camera was a red plastic point and shoot 35mm Hanimex 35HS that I had a few years later and I used that one many times during the 80s and 90s. I even bought a flash for it which was a lot bigger and heavier than the camera. Unfortunately the flash was lost many years ago.

I loved shooting with that camera but buying film and having it developed was expensive so I only bought film for special occasions such as family holidays and the such like. I loved the look of the metal SLRs from the 1970s and 80s but such a camera was WAY out of my extremely limited budget but I have always loved the idea of owning one.

Fast forward to around 2000 or 2001 and I was still plodding on with the Hanimex when I bought a TV card for my desktop computer which could digitize video images. I already had a little Sony camcorder, so I used to record 10 seconds of footage being as still as possible and then digitize those images to form photographs on my computer!! I kid you not. I was so desperate to have digital images on my computer that this rather convoluted method actually made sense back then. Well, it did to me!

Then a revelation came in 2001 when a friend of mine bought a digital camera made by Fujifilm and it was 1 megapixel and the images were absolutely stunning. Far better than I had ever seen before, so I decided to save up and get one. By the time I had saved up (late 2001), the 2 megapixel version was out which was smaller too. This was the Fuji Finepix 2600Z. An absolute revelation! I used that camera up to 2008 when I bought a new camera, the amazing 8.3 megapixel Fuji Finepix 45fd! Again, such an amazing jump in resolution. This was to be my last main point and shoot camera.

I had been taking photographs at car shows for some years and the 45fd was fine IF the light was good which it wasn’t at indoor shows, so very often I’d end up with a grainy, slightly blurry mess. In early 2015 my friend Steve was using his Canon 550D DSLR at an indoor show, so he let me have a go and it was not even in the same league as my Fuji so I decided to get a DSLR. I agonised for ages about which manufacturer and model to go for and after speaking to people who had them and doing some on-line research I bought a Canon 700D with 18-135mm kit lens. This camera really pushed me into photography as a hobby rather than something I occasionally did. I bought some more lenses for it, 50mm, 10-18mm, and then some L series lenses including my main lens which is the Canon 24-70mm f/4 L IS. I still use this lens and a 5D MK1 today if I need to shoot digital.

As I got further into the hobby, I found that a lot of the images that I really liked the look of on-line were shot with film, so in September 2015 I bought a Canon AE-1 Program and some Agfa Vista 200. I was hooked. It felt awesome just to shoot with that camera. It was not long before I bought a Canon EOS 650 so that I could use my EF lenses from my digital camera, then I bought a Kodak Brownie box camera and some 120 film. During the next couple of years I bought and used over 100 film cameras (which I still have) and started to develop my own film on 1st January 2016, first black and white and a few months later C-41 colour. I am still shooting with a variety of film cameras and developing my own negatives.

I scan and upload my film images to Flickr as I thought it would be a good place to share them. I try do have them on Flickr as soon as I can, but with film, it does take some time...

Just for interest, the main cameras I shoot with are:

Pentax ME Super with 28mm f/2.8, 40mm f/2.8, 50mm f/1.7, 135mm f/3.5

Canon EOS 5 with 28mm f/1.8, 40mm f/2.8, 24-70mm f/4 L IS, 50mm f/1.4, Tamron 150-600mm

Mamiya RB67 Pro-S with Sekor-C 50mm f/4.5, Sekor-C 90mm f/3.8 & Sekor K/L 180mm f/4.5

Yashica D with Yashikor 80mm f/3.5

Graflex Crown Graphic Special with Schneider-Kreuznach 135mm f/4.7

Wista 45VX with:

Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 65mm f/5.6

Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 90mm f/5.6

Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 120mm f/8

Schneider-Kreuznach Apo-Symmar 150mm f/5.6

Schneider-Kreuznach Apo-Symmar 210mm f/5.6

Fuji Fujinon T 400mm f/8

SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/2 reversed for macro

Aldis Anastigmat 5 ¾” f/6 No.2 (135mm)

Rittreck 5x7 View Camera with the above Schneider-Kreuznach lenses

My favourite films are:

Ilford Pan F, Delta 100, FP4+, HP5+

Kodak Ektar 100, Portra 160, Plus-X Pan

Thank you for reading! :-)