Recent content by Peter Roberts

Love The Fabric Shop. The tight framing makes the display look like a surreal montage. Those piercing eyes are quite unnerving. Good work, Gianluca.

Well observed and nicely framed, the figures in the shaft of light add the finishing touch. Great shot, Gianluca. Another mystery though: Escher's stairways are famously never ending. So how did you get up to your vantage point? More importantly, how did you get down? ;)

Thank Gary 👍

Thanks, Gianluca. Ah yes, the blacks. I exposed for the highlights and let the shadows take care of themselves. Tri X is such a beautifully contrasty film stock that it rendered them as you so aptly said: deep and black. Just how I like them in fact with no need to use a yellow filter or post...

Some while ago I made a point of visiting all of London's 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries. A few results of those visits both appeared here and 35mmc. The one that eluded me photographically was Abney Park in North-east London. Great swathes of it were inaccessible because of renovation and...

Thanks for the reminder, Tony. As son's in Australia I should have remembered that. P.S. It certainly wasn't my intention to leave the film in camera for that long.

Very interesting, Ralph. Great write up of your experiences with the EM.

Having been on boating holidays myself that all sounds very ambitious. As you say you'll have your work cut out working the boat, great fun though.

Out of season I know but I've only just got round to finishing the roll and having it developed 🙄 Yashica D / Kodak Gold

Those look good, Ralph. I'm glad you've got on top of that EM's little foibles. It would be a shame to relegate it to a mere paperweight. Kentmere 400 through a yellow filter is a favourite choice of mine. It can look a bit flat and bland without one

There's always something very satisfying in squeezing decent images out of a camera that is, to put it politely, long past its prime.

That looks fine to me, Ralph. Yashica carried the flame for Japanese TLRs long after other manufacturers had given up on them. In so doing they produced some tough little beasts that are currently underrated. Not in the Rollei category of course but pretty damn good nonetheless. I have a...

Thanks for bouncing off my post, Ralph. It's what forums should be for: to generate discussion of similar experiences. Sadly they're not all like that. The EOS 5 is far further up the food chain than my humble 300 but, yikes, that's some evil looking fungus there. I've nothing really to add to...

Thanks for the tip, Wes. Even if it is another rabbit hole to dive into :rolleyes:

Thanks for commenting, Wes. From what I've read about it now I've got it it has a good reputation for reliability. As you say, it's not a camera to set the world on fire but I look forward to using it when I want to use film but feel lazy.