View of Durham Cathedral
This is the Cathedral at Durham viewed from the bank of the River Wear. During our holiday in the North…
Pentax MZ-M 35mm SLR
A review of the manual focus Pentax MZ-M which was one of the last 35mm film cameras Pentax made in…
Olympus OM-40 35mm slr camera
The OM-40 is a manual focus, 35mm slr with various exposure modes, pattern or ‘off the film’ metering, DX coded…
Favourite Pictures – The jesters cap
This is another of the pictures I took at Kentwell Hall during their recent ‘Tudor Day’. It is a couple…
Chatsworth House in Derbyshire
Today we paid a visit to Chatsworth House in Derbyshire and I took this picture of the house using my…
My Miranda family
I decided a couple of weeks ago to concentrate my ‘camera collecting’ persona on two vintage camera makers for the…
Ricoh GXR Leica A12 Macro pictures
Today I want out with my Ricoh GXR Leica A12 camera, fitted with a Tamron 90mm Macro lens, to take…
How to check the health of a vintage camera
This post attempts to answer the question ‘Is my vintage camera still working’? I started to write it as an…
Pentax MZ-60 QD 35mm autofocus slr
The Pentax MZ-60 was the last 35mm camera Pentax produced in the MZ series, and in fact the penultimate 35mm…
Compaq/HP 8710W Laptop running Ubuntu Linux
This short post is to answer a question potential Compaq/HP 8710W owners may be asking. Just in case it’s useful…
Optomax 300mm f/5.6 M42 lens on Sony Nex
The subject of this post is a fixed telephoto lens available quite cheaply in M42 mount – the Optomax 300mm f/5.6.…
Balda Baldessa 1B rangefinder camera
The Balda Baldessa 1B is a 35mm coupled rangefinder camera with built in light meter and a rather unusual focus…
