Category: Equipment and Kit


  • Darkroom Days

    I managed a good long dark room session this week, the first in a month really! 4 films processed – two were disasters due to circumstance, one was a bit of a failure because of user error with the camera (an old Soviet rangefinder which I need to practice with more) and one that was…

  • November is Here

    The month has rolled over again and we are now in stormy November, the autumn colours are rapidly fading now but there are still browns and golds hanging on still. The weather is changing now though and becoming more active with Atlantic lows rolling in. You may think that was it for photography now… but…

  • Review: The Commercial Kit

    Lets start with the bag itself! I use a Peak Imaging Retrospective 30 on my commercial jobs. A backpack, whilst easier on the shoulder, is to cumbersome and slow to work from on these shoots – I want to be in and out quickly, smoothly and causing as little disruption to the client as possible.…

  • All Hail The Panoramic

    I love panoramic format photography. I always have! One of my first cameras was a Nikon compact that had a slider to change the aspect ratio into a pseudo panorama (it just cropped the top and bottom of the frame) but from that I was hooked. It replicated the way I saw the world and…