Film

The new Rollei 35AF: I want to fall in love, but it’s not so easy

The Rollei 35AF is one of the few newly developed film cameras. Does it live up to its big name? Here comes the review after months of field testing.

Ilford Witness: How a Lancashire mill town nearly became the Wetzlar of England

In a parallel universe, the last of the rangefinders is not made in Wetzlar, Germany, but in Bolton, England. Here is an alternative Witness to a Century...

Partners in Crime: A meditation on the importance of friendship and film photography

Best friends are difficult to come by. My son, Kipling, met his best friend, Christian, in the first few days of Junior Kindergarten. They’ve been inseparable ever since and epitomise the importance of friendship…

Capturing the Canadian winter on film: re-embracing cold-weather photography

The winters of my youth were spent in Sudbury, Ontario. The memories from those years are captured on film photos, which are crammed inside a discoloured shoebox…

James Jarché — A largely forgotten former London Fleet Street press photographer

James Jarché — a now largely forgotten former London Fleet Street press photographer — came to fame in 1936 as the first photographer to capture the future Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson in public. He was also the grandfather of the famous actor, Sir David Suchet…

OM System Old and New: Through Italy with an Olympus OM-4 and an OM-5

OM System is today the maker of the OM-5 DSLM camera. But the OM System was also the platform of the Olympus analogue SLR cameras. We tried the recent OM-5 and the vintage OM-4 Ti side by side during a trip to Italy.

Searching for my Cameraman

You have to wonder why it's important for me to go searching for my "Cameraman". By the age of eight, I’d accrued more passport stamps and booster shots than the average war correspondent...

Finding meaning, humour and lightness of heart in traditional film photography

It’s easy to take life too seriously, and even easier to do the same with photography. I took myself too seriously. But then.…