There is a saying that’ You can never have too many cameras’. While I’m guilty of practicing this, there comes a time when where a good Spring cleanout is needed. The first to go was the SQ-Ai. The battery holder design quirk was starting to annoy me and I got myself an earlier SQ body that takes a single battery, to replace it. The other problem was the 40mm f/4. With the fixed lens…
Old Toy Alert
With the demise of my Canon A1, I was looking for something to replace it, as I have nothing else that shoots 35mm. I came across a Canon P review on Youtube and like the idea of trying a rangefinder. The review mentioned Peter Dechert’s book on the full Canon rangefinder line up from the 1935 Hansa to the 1968 Canon 7s, which seemed a good place to start looking for what model to…
New Toy Alert.
Is this the prettiest modern camera you have ever seen? Well I think so, and if you see that even a year or so after its release, there was and still is, a long waiting list to get your hands on one, then thousands of others think so as well. Even secondhand examples are selling for more than the retail price on Ebay. Bonkers. So, looking at all my other cameras, this seems an…
Olympus Trip Revamp
I’ve had this little puppy since 2010 when I picked it up from a camera shop in Bodmin for the princely sum of £19.00. In 2022 you will need to spend up to anything around £100.00 to get a good one, so not a bad return on my initial investment. Looking at the code printed on the back of the pressure plate, mine was manufactured in December of 1979. The lens seemed to be…
Images from August 2022
Beats and Roots 4A D Treloar The Redruth The Library Birdie The Potting Shed Scorched La Bicyclette Arthurs Gate Refuge Corporate Snail Mumfords Revisited Cryptic Syncronised Prickly
She’s arrived
Well she’s here. After a 6000 odd mile trip from Japan in less than a week, I now have my hands on my SQ-Ai body replacement. This SQ body is in mint condition. Not a scratch anywhere. Even with shipping and import duty, I have a body in better condition for less than I could have got one here in the UK. …
Wales & West Photography Show
Wasn’t sure what to make of the Wales & West Photography Show when we first saw it announced, but as the tickets were free and we fancied a weekend away, we thought we would give it a punt. …
Ooops
Had a bit of a photo trundle to St Anthony’s head a few days ago. Still trying to get into the swing of things when it comes to using the Bronica. On the less Happy Bunny front, when it came to looking at the roll of the days shoot, I was greeted with this….
A little Trundle
Had a little trundle down to Boscawen Park in Truro. The Bronni batteries were playing up again, so I had to stuff a bit of dried leaf in the battery compartment to get the button cells to make contact with their respective connecting pins. (See my moan about this problem in a previous post) One thing is for sure, a gap of many years without being in proper ‘Film Camera’ mode really does make…
Does the Bronica SQ-Ai have a serious flaw?
love my Bronny – it’s my most used medium format camera I have, well any camera I have, apart from the iPhone. But I have now witnessed two instances of the same problem with the Ai body. It’s the battery holder….