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Camera Stories Chapter 2: The Voigtländer Vitoret 110 and the Wannabe Secret Agent

March 11, 2024 - Being a child of the 1970s has its advantages, although now being in my fifties is not what I’d consider to be one of th...
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Camera Stories Chapter 1: The Halina 110 Auto-Flip - Where it all started

February 24, 2024 - While out on one of my regular walks around town recently, I bumped into an old colleague of mine from around 20 years a...
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Camera Stories: An Introduction to Obsession

February 13, 2024 - It’s fair to say that photography is in my blood. My father and grandfather were both keen photographers, the former bec...
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Iconic Fatigue Syndrome

August 29, 2023 - “We did the exact same things when we were young”, I said. I’m sitting in a café with a friend of mine who I have known...
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Old's Cool, Apparently

July 04, 2023 - I was chatting with a friend of mine recently about a classic track from the 1990s that I was looking for on vinyl. He o...
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it...

March 07, 2023 - Picture the scene. You’re in total darkness, holding a thin, delicate strip of plastic in one hand and a small bobbin th...
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Style and Substance – the magnificent Rolleiflex TLR

December 01, 2022 - The most common question I get when people learn that I’m a camera collector, is “do you have a favourite?” I’ve never b...
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I Leica that very much

October 31, 2022 - Something happened in world of photography during the last couple of weeks, that I confess to being very confused about.
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Through the Squarish Window

September 15, 2022 - This year marks 10 years since London played host to the Olympic Games which, for me, was perhaps the most magical and u...
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Mirror, Mirror in the Camera

September 02, 2022 - Over the past few years, I’ve sat back and watched most of my photography friends upgrade their cameras to mirrorless te...
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Forget the gear, have an idea

October 05, 2021 - I’ve recently returned from a few days away in the beautiful Ribble Valley in Lancashire, which was another early advent...
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