Once my pinhole camera was finished the next decision was should I use film or paper for the negatives? To be honest for me it was a fairly simple decision. I had made a pinhole camera really just to see if I could do it and then I planned to use it to decide ifContinue reading “Pinhole Camera: Part 4”
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A walk in the snow.
We’re back in lockdown but that means we can still go out locally for a walk as I did the other day after there had be some snow the day before. Where I live there is a walk I can take which skirts a golf course and goes across some fields and ultimately down intoContinue reading “A walk in the snow.”
St Peter’s Church and Norman Chapel, Prestbury.
The village of Prestbury in Cheshire was once notorious for being home to a high proportion of millionaires and professional footballers. It still has some well known inhabitants but it also has St Peter’s Church and its associated Norman Chapel. At the end of the 12th century the local Anglo-Saxon church was demolished and whatContinue reading “St Peter’s Church and Norman Chapel, Prestbury.”
Pinhole camera: Part 3
Now it’s time to make the pinhole. For this I followed the methods described by SROYON on the 35mmc website ( https://www.35mmc.com/26/10/2020/making-measuring-and-testing-the-optimal-pinhole-pinhole-adventures-part-3-by-sroyon/). This is well worth a read as it explains a lot about how to decide what size pinhole to use, how to make them and various ways of measuring them. I’m not goingContinue reading “Pinhole camera: Part 3”
Pinhole camera: Part 2
So the back of the camera which will take the film holder is all done apart from painting. The next jobs are to make the body of the camera and then the front plate which will hold the pinhole and the shutter. The plan for the body is a simple open ended box made outContinue reading “Pinhole camera: Part 2”
Pinhole camera: Part 1
For quite some time I’ve been pondering over making my own 4×5 large format camera out of wood. As well as an interest in photography I also enjoy woodworking and have some suitable tools so it’s not unreasonable that I should combine two hobbies. There are lots of examples of other people doing just theContinue reading “Pinhole camera: Part 1”
Alderley Edge Miner’s Ramble
In the run up towards Christmas this year I took the opportunity to go over to nearby Alderley Edge for a walk in the woods there and I took my Zorki with me. Alderley Edge is a popular place of people to wander around and get some fresh air and is looked after by theContinue reading “Alderley Edge Miner’s Ramble”
Biddulph Grange
I visited Biddulph Grange in September when the gardens were reopened to visitors and took my Zorki 4 along with me. Biddulph Grange gardens were developed by James Bateman using money he inherited from his father, who had become rich from coal and steel businesses. James Bateman moved to Biddulph Grange around 1840 and createdContinue reading “Biddulph Grange”
St Mary’s Lighthouse
It’s been a while since I last posted as I haven’t been going out too much because of Covid-19 and I’ve been spending a lot of time working in the garden. Now that it’s getting colder I thought I’d look through some photographs I hadn’t published before and post them. Much the same time asContinue reading “St Mary’s Lighthouse”
A second outing with my ‘new’ lens
Following on from my trip around Bollington, Cheshire to try out my newly ebay purchased 50mm 1.7 Pentax-A lens, I went out again this time exploring some of the staircases in Macclesfield which connect the lower part of the town, where the railway station is, with the main town square. Another cold dull day butContinue reading “A second outing with my ‘new’ lens”
Trying out my ‘new’ lens for the Pentax P30t
I finally got out to try my ‘new’ 50mm lens as a replacement for the 28-80mm zoom lens which I found just too clumsy and awkward. The day I chose may not have been the best but I wanted to go out, so on one misty morning I did just that. I had a walkContinue reading “Trying out my ‘new’ lens for the Pentax P30t”
Some photos from Newcastle
While I’m waiting for an opportunity to try out the ‘new’ 50mm f1.7 lens I bought on Ebay I thought I’d share some photos taken in Newcastle at the end of October last year. It was actually a bright sunny day unlike many of the times I’ve been out and about taking photographs. I likeContinue reading “Some photos from Newcastle”
A new lens for the Pentax P30T
Those of you who read my post about buying the Pentax P30T might recall that I was unsure about the 28-80mm f3.5 zoom lens I had with it. I felt it was a little heavy to carry as a general go-to lens and that it upset the balance of the camera. Well, the more IContinue reading “A new lens for the Pentax P30T”
Trying Delta 400 in the Pentax P30T
The next time I took the Pentax out I loaded it with Ilford Delta 400 film as a change. I wanted to see if Delta 400 lived up to its promises of still giving less obviously grainy results despite its greater speed due to its reported different grain structure. I quite liked the idea ofContinue reading “Trying Delta 400 in the Pentax P30T”
More from the Pentax P30T
Not long after my first outing with the Pentax P30T, I went across to Speke Hall next to Liverpool’s John Lennon airport. It’s another National Trust run property, an interesting 16th century manorhouse which I think photographs well. Once again it was another mixed day, mainly cloudy with a little bit of sunshine here andContinue reading “More from the Pentax P30T”
First film through the Pentax P30T
As I was keen to try out my newly purchased Pentax P30T, I loaded it with a roll of Ilford Delta 100 film and went off to nearby Little Moreton Hall, a National Trust run property in Cheshire. It was a bright but cloudy day, no sunshine but plenty of light, ideal for photographing thisContinue reading “First film through the Pentax P30T”
My second “new” film camera
I didn’t intend this to happen but looking through some blogs on film cameras the other day made me think that a second film camera might not be a such bad idea just in case I have problems with the Zorki again. Reading through various suggestions it seemed to me that a Pentax K1000 mightContinue reading “My second “new” film camera”
Now I have a scanner of my own
In my last post I tried to compare the quality of commercial scans of my 35mm negatives with various home brewed low cost alternative methods. The overall conclusion I came to was that none of the alternatives I tried were really up to the job so after much research and several changes of mind IContinue reading “Now I have a scanner of my own”
Scanning my negatives at home – a trial.
Having decided to develop my own black and white negatives at home – partly to save a little money but mainly so I could experiment with film/developer combinations to find a combination or combinations I liked – I was then left with the problem of how best to convert the negatives into prints. I hadContinue reading “Scanning my negatives at home – a trial.”
I decided to start developing my own film
You might have gathered by now that I didn’t really like the combination of contrast and grain I was seeing from the Delta 100 film that I was having commercially developed and scanned, so I started looking for some equipment on ebay so that I could do my own processing. I already had a fewContinue reading “I decided to start developing my own film”
I BOUGHT AN OLD FILM CAMERA 