Today I met and fell in love with a little black beauty from Cosina-Voigtlaender, a fifteen-year-old simple shooter with a super wide view of life. Pop in a film and see how it goes.....

The annual Photographica photo fair which takes place in the Royal Horticultural Halls, Victoria, is a firm favourite in my calendar. It's as much for the chat and friendship as for the seeking of bargains. This year I talked myself hoarse but also found time to snap up some bargains. I have just staggered home after six solid hours on the hoof, treading 4,000 steps for a perambulation of 1.9 miles. I'm now too tired to go to the gym as planned. Read on.

Yesterday I spied a rather nice Leica M3 and 50mm Summitar, complete with Leica Meter, sitting in a camera shop in West London. Not a Leica dealer, however. I couldn’t resist having a look and found a good user M3, single stroke, from 1963, with a 1946 f/2 Summitar screw-mount lens attached. Old screw-mount Summitars are enjoying something of a renaissance, I recalled.....