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  • Kodak Six-20 Brownie Junior (UK portrait Edition)

    Today’s post is a family relic – my late Uncle Bills Kodak Six-20 Brownie Junior (Portrait Model). As the only one left shooting film(once in a blue moon now) in the family, I inherited one of his cameras he had from new.  Brownies had a long production run – in its various variants which were…

  • New Old Camera – Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3

    So I impulse bought a camera lot recently in an online auction. Initially, I was really bidding on a standard zoom lens for my Canon DSLR, but there were a few other goodies that caught my eye. One such goodie was the Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3. A mighty 4MP bridge camera from 2004 sporting a…

  • The Journey or the Destination

    As I leave my summer holidays behind and return to work, I begin to look back on my time off. I shot this image on my Sony Nex 5N whilst camping the other week at the gateway to the ‘Far North’ of New Zealand. It was shot at the far end of the 210mm (so…

  • Through Someones Vintage Eyes – Hong Kong

    A new, very occasional feature? Other peoples images create different stories in our minds. Sometimes we get the narration, like me blogging here and you reading. Other times, we just have an image with no story and need to fill in the gaps with our imagination. I recently got hold of a 37 slide box…

  • First Walk With A New Old Camera

    Stars aligned with an old friend who also shoots and we ventured out to Auckland’s suburb Onehunga to shoot some frames. I took the opportunity to bring along a ‘new’ camera for a test run – the Canon EOS 300D Digital. The 300D was a milestone DSLR on its release in 2003 as the first…