Ricoh GXR VF-2, the missing piece in the puzzle
This post is going to look at the Ricoh GXR VF-2 viewfinder for the Ricoh GXR mirrorless camera.
Developing colour film using the digibase C41 kit – second attempt
Last week I had my first attempt at developing a colour film using a C41 home processing kit, and it was somewhat less than successful….
Disappointing results using the digibase C41 kit – part 3
This is third and final part of my series on home developing of colour negative film using the digibase C41 kit. In this part I’m…
Successful C41 development using the digibase kit – part 2
In the last post I described a bit of background to the decision to use the digibase kit for my first venture into C41 development….
Developing colour film using a C41 digibase kit – part 1
This is the first in a series of articles which describes my experiences developing colour film using a set of pre-diluted C41 chemicals which I…
Experiments in early morning photography
There is something magical about photographs taken in low light which makes even mundane and boring scenes look interesting. Well, living as I do in…
My top camera finds of 2015
The start of a new year always leads us to thinking about the year just past, and as a camera collector I automatically think in…
New site design
Any regular reader will notice that my photo blog has a different look this morning. Although I don’t like to mess with the layout or…
Decision made – I’m sticking with wordpress (at the moment)
Last week I wrote a short post about the thoughts I’d had about my blog hosting arrangements. Briefly to recap, I’ve been thinking about moving…
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions – or where to host my site.
It was about a year ago that I moved my site from a wordpress domain, simonhawketts.wordpress.com to my own domain simonhawketts.com but at the time…
Film or Digital ?
Over the last 6 to 12 months it’s become more and more frequent that when I go anywhere to take pictures I will take along…