Recent content by Keith Drysdale

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Love Johnny looking straight at you.

I have liked results I've achieved with some other Kodak Professional Range films so I decided to spend a bit extra on Pro Image 100 and put a roll through the rather ugly Olympus AZ-300 Superzoom. I like the colours a lot but I was surprised at the grain.

I did a series on my channel about "crap cameras", featuring compacts and compact zooms from this era (late 80s to early noughties) and I found that the results you can get from them were generally pretty good, especially when used as intended for trips and events. I wanted to try one of the...

A great innovation for people to record events without the expense of buying a "proper" camera, but I stick with my assessment of the Instamatic. I think disposable camera serviced a desire created by the Instamatic.

While I recognise the value of the iPhone, I think the Instamatic began the belief that every family could and should have a camera.

There is a camera missing from that list, available from 1963 until 1988 (through various updates), sold over 50 million units, and introduced millions of people to the idea of photography. The Kodak Instamatic is in my opinion the most important camera ever. The lens wasn't sharp and the two...

As a tobacco addict, clean for ten years, I prefer not to smell smoke, but I do feel sorry for less mobile patients who can't leave the grounds of hospitals. In my youth, it seemed everyone smoked, especially in films and on TV. I succumbed at a very young age to exposure and advertising (and...

The edges and gaps on the negatives were dark and on a lot of the shots the shadows were just black and grainy. Some, like this one were recoverable in Lightroom.

A Nikon Zoom 600AF from ebay loaded with Tri-X, shot at box speed ('cos that's what the camera does) and developed in 510-Pyro. Unfortunately the Fixer was exhausted so the negs were a bit fogged. It was very cold out.

A favourite car I owned - a Rover 75 2.0 diesel.

Little fatty (Sony A3000 and kit lens)

Mythos and Mozart - sounds like a pleasant evening in. Your shots are great and it reinforces the idea that if you aren't feeling it then you should shoot anyway and who knows what surprises you may find.

A well known bridge in the North East of England. Zenit E, Soligor 28mm f2.8, Kodak Gold 200

Fascinating. This is a scene that has just about disappeared from the UK Great shots.