On this page I’m going to include scans of some of the vintage camera manuals which I have acquired over …
I took this picture of the centre of Durham using the 10mm setting of my Tamron 10-24mm Super wide angle …
My battle with my Miranda D shutter continues so I get a bit more serious with the dismantling!
It was about a year ago that I moved my site from a wordpress domain, simonhawketts.wordpress.com to my own domain …
I’ve been using film cameras quite a bit over the last few weeks and I’ve collected together some pictures which …
This post shows how to repair a Pentax Spotmatic stuck mirror, which is a common problem with this iconic camera …
Last week I had my first attempt at developing a colour film using a C41 home processing kit, and it …
The Fuji X-T1 is one of the top cameras in Fuji’s pro level mirrorless camera range, and there is a very …
Today I want out with my Ricoh GXR Leica A12 camera, fitted with a Tamron 90mm Macro lens, to take …
This is a descriptive review of the Eumig Sound 31 XL Super 8mm sound cine camera, which is a battery …
A look at a very popular snapshot camera of the 1980s the Konica Pop.
This is my review/description of the Praktica Super TL3 35mm single lens reflex camera from about 1978.
