Broken Agfa Color-Telinear 90mm f/4.0 aperture repair
Last year I bought an Agfa Ambi Silette 35mm rangefinder which is unique in the silette range because it has…
Multiple monitors on a Dell XPS 13
Last week I got a new laptop for work – or rather I got an old Laptop for work –…
Fuji S2 Pro digital camera – part two
This is the second part of my look at the Fuji S2 Pro digital camera. In the first part I…
Alexandra Palace boating Lake
We were walking round the boating lake in Alexandra Palace last Autumn and I’d fitted a super wide angle Tamron…
Autumn in super wide-angle
I decided to try out my Tamron super wide angle on my Sony Nex 6 to get some autumn pictures.
Cleaning the Compur Synchro shutter from a Kodak Retina IIc rangefinder camera
In my last post I described how I removed the shutter from my Kodak Retina IIc camera, and in this…
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…
Pentax Z-20 35mm auto-focus slr review
This is a review of one of the best specified models in the Pentax Z series of auto-focus 35mm film…
Industar 61 f/2.8 50mm lens
This post tells the story of how I discovered that vintage lenses, designed for rangefinder cameras in the 1960s, can…
Pentax MZ-3 sample photographs
This post is to show the Pentax MZ-3 sample photographs I took from the first film I ran through my…
New old cameras
My eBay purchases have turned up. I have a Pentax MZ-5 with Sigma 28-80 macro, a Minolta Dynax 5 with…
Minolta Dynax 5000i
The Minolta Dynax 5000i SLR camera was produced by Minolta in Japan in the late 1980s as part of their…
