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  • Ilford Micro -Neg Pan Type B on Tram Day

    Weekend been featured ‘Tram Day’ at our local technology museum Motat. What better a subject to take out a roll of my vintage (60’s) 6ASA Ilford Micro-Neg Pan Type B film. Armed with the Canon EOS 10 (one of the few SLR’s which can shoot sprocket-less) and a nifty fifty set to 1.8 for the…

  • Through Someones Vintage Eyes – Farewell Africa.

    This is it for our current journey people and Africa – my last box of slides on this continent I think. It’s a bit of a mixed lot – numbers of the slides overall match, but I think it’s from a selection cobbled together. We start off with the above ‘Lourenço Marques Portuguese East Africa’…

  • Debonair Super-Lens No.809

    The ‘Toy Camera’ is something I seem to drop in and out of over the years. A recent rummage in one of my local quirky second hand stores revealed a vintage Debonair Super-lens No.809. A replica of the original Diana 120 film plastic cameras. the Debonair (depending where you read) is probably the best clone…

  • Through Someones Vintage Eyes – Canary Islands and East Africa.

    Our journey continues with the adventurers from last ‘Someones Vintage Eyes’ and remains ‘around’ the African continent. I think this post is likely both a prequel and afterward of the last as we bounce between Canary Islands first (going by slide number) and then to East Africa. But I am taking this box by box…

  • Bits and Bobs

    Sometimes one just ends up with a few shots in an outing. Maybe the others were complete flops, or maybe you just didn’t shoot enough. You throw them all into a folder. They don’t really go together. They don’t really have a theme. Perhaps their only common attribute is they are a captured point of…