This article first appeared in, the now defunct, Wildling Magazine site (August 2015). The original post was just a collection of images…

Welcome back! It took a while, almost 2 years, but I finally got round to writing this up. We left part 1 of the story on the ferry, somewhere in the middle of the Adriatic, heading south east towards Igoumenitsa, getting ready for the 2nd part of our journey. We…

I’m currently a bit in a phase where I just find big photo equipment annoying. It is big, heavy, a pain to lug around, it drags you down, tires you as you walk about. Just…not nice. And then, something comes along that is refreshing: the pancake Canon 40mm f/2.8 is…

I do like a normal lens. I really do. The majority of my photos are with one. Across all the formats I have used (35mm, 645, 6x6, 6x7) the one lens that served me the most was the standard lens. …

I was writing this story about the Nikon F3 and realised that pretty much all the photos I used were shot with the 50/1.2 AIS. So…here’s a mini review of this little gem. The specs This is the fastest F-mount lens Nikon made, along with the 58/1.2. It is also one of…

The Nikon F3. Nikon’s top end film SLR camera of the 80s. I had one (a few years ago, not in the 80s!), the F3HP to be precise. …

Sometime last year I backed the Cinestill campaign to bring 400D to the market. If you’ve not heard of Cinestill, they sellrepurposed Kodak Vision film (the one used for making motion films) for still photography use. In a nutshell: they process EC2N motion film so that it can be processed…

If you read a few of my stories so far you’ll know that I shoot film. I do not want to go into why film or digital or all that. It is what it is. I tried various different digital cameras from Canon and Nikon and Fuji over the years…

Space: the final frontier. No, not that…I mean the final photographic frontier. And if you ever wondered which camera went to space and, more importantly, the moon, it was a Hasselblad. Lots of others went before and after it, including Minolta, Nikon, etc etc. But the one that everyone remembers…