Kamera Baukasten with Xtra 400

I loaded up the build-it-yourself Kamera Baukasten Vecco VC-20 with Fujifilm Xtra 400 and took it out to Islington, mainly in Joseph Grimaldi Park. Here are some results: These were taken fairly early in the morning on my way to work s the light wasn’t brilliant, but it seems to have coped okay. This camera […]

The AA Autolite Telewide Drive

Okay, this was the beginning of an attempt to get back into 110 photography – something I remember fondly from the dim and distant days of my youth. Way back in the days when everything was brown or a burnt orange (the real early 80’s, not the music video version) I had many 110 cameras […]

Lomography La Sardina with Rollei RPX400

So I’ve had the La Sardina for a while, it’s The Guvnor special edition if I remember rightly. As with most Lomography cameras it is pretty much plastic throughout. Even loaded with film this doesn’t feel weighty in the hand and it fits in a coat pocket easily enough. it has two focus settings and […]

Kamera Baukasten (Vecco VC-20) with Agfa Vista 200

The Vecco VC-20 is a camera you build from a kit, which came free with a film box from Analogue Wonderland. Apart from a couple of springs it is entirely plastic, including the lens. According to one site I saw online it takes 10 minutes to assemble and a ten year-old can do it. That […]

The Holga Digital, Part 2 . . . or accept things for what they are.

Ok, I know I’ve already posted about this camera but I left it with an uncertainty about whether I like it or not. I think the main issue is that I was judging the images the same way I do the ones from my Nikon DSLR. I was looking for precise focus, controlled depth of […]