Recent content by Keith Drysdale

Some great shots there. That veedub is absolutely gleaming! The first camera I bought was a Halina Paulette, which was quite awful but I learned a lot from its, and my, mistakes. I like that cemetery - I could find inspiration shooting there!

I have to keep a steady flow going to feed my YT channel. The Zenit and the Praktica made it feel like a chore and that's probably why I enjoyed the light weight and automatic everything of the zoom compacts.

So far this year I have shot a roll in a Canon A1, Minolta AL-F, Praktica MTL 50, Nikon Zoom 600AF, Olympus Superzoom AZ300, Pentax Espio 140, Pentax MV and Zenit TTL. I managed to get shots I'm very happy with from each of them but some are more pleasant than others to use. Some that I used to...

You snapped the tree? :oops::D

Welcome!

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.