For a photographer, there is nothing quite like the experience of looking onto the focus screen of a TLR or other medium format, primarily waist-level viewfinder cameras such as Hasselblads, Bronicas or Mamiya RB67s.
Author Archives: Nigel Shuttleworth
I made my living from photography straddling the analogue and digital eras but my pleasure in retirement is in collecting and using vintage (ie. cheap!) Polaroid and rollfilm cameras. The fact that every now and then I produce a half decent snap out of a battered old camera which I can post on here is the other side to my hobby.
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Maximum readiness, effective robustness: The Durst Sei Sei (Durst 66)
During the never-ending cycle of lockdowns here in the UK, I’ve set myself a little project wandering about on my permitted ‘one-exercise-a-day’ time, documenting my hometown of Stone in the West Midlands. My preferred film is ILFORD HP5 PLUS: absolutely bomb-proof. A friend regularly develops his in his coffee (Caffenol) and he gets printable negatives […]
