35mm Film

I do like a normal lens. I really do. The majority of my photos are with one. Across all the formats I have used (35mm, 645, 6x6, 6x7) the one lens that served me the most was the standard lens. …

I was writing this story about the Nikon F3 and realised that pretty much all the photos I used were shot with the 50/1.2 AIS. So…here’s a mini review of this little gem. The specs This is the fastest F-mount lens Nikon made, along with the 58/1.2. It is also one of…

The Nikon F3. Nikon’s top end film SLR camera of the 80s. I had one (a few years ago, not in the 80s!), the F3HP to be precise. …

Sweet mother of mercy, Surfers Paradise is gaudy. Even with improvements, upgrades, a fancy light rail, and new buildings, it’s like putting lipstick on a pig. The beach itself is honestly the worst swimming and surfing beach on the Gold Coast. Exposed, windy, busy, full of show-off holiday makers. In…

Winter in Queensland can bring a lot of things, cold weather isn’t one of them. Sure, it gets cooler. We all miss bitching about the heat. Instead of sweating, we have to put a light jumper (sweater!) on. We’re really quite spoiled. Anything under 24oC (75oF) is ‘just a bit…

I’ve jumped head and foot onto the film bandwagon. The only thing missing is the cool clothes, the orange San Francisco apartment and an early 2000’s Subaru wagon. I wanted to explore the question of ‘does shooting film make you a better photographer?’. It’s something I’ve been ruminating on. I’ve…

Getting a camera When I was a second-year Information Design student in 2014, I begrudgingly bought a $70 second-hand Minolta X-700 film camera for a film photography module. …

After a long lethargy, I welcome myself back to the world of film analyses with a new review: Malcolm & Marie by Sam Levinson (2021). For a lover of the European cinema of the past century like me, this choice comes unexpected, yet here we are. I am always intrigued…

(originally written on January 27, 2022) I shoot analog photos occasionally on an old Asahi Pentax K1000 imported from Hong Kong. It’s a bare bones analog camera that’s built like a brick. No autofocus or auto exposure. However, it does come with a nifty center-point focus meter and a dialed…