I shoot with both the Leica rangefinders and the Nikon SLRs. The most frequently used are my Leica M6 TTL 0.58 and Nikon F3, which is the camera that got me back into shooting with film.  They are both legendary cameras,...

Introduction Ilford XP2 Super 400 is best known for a unique characteristic: though it is a genuine black and white film, it can be processed using standard C41 processing alongside everyday colour films on the high street. There’s much more...

Although I've shot with quite a few auto focus film cameras, I haven't any hands-on experience of the early, historically significant, models from the 70's and 80's described in this post. I only dimly recall the point and shoots I...

This article was inspired by classic film cameras in movies - specifically , Leicas and Nikons. From cameras in movies, it's a short step to movies about photographers. My favourite movie with a photographer as the lead character is Alfred...

As a Nikon user and collector, I've noticed quite a few Nikon film cameras appearances in the movies and on TV shows. This short article outlines those appearances. I've also written in more detail about the Nikon F's appearance in...

This year by year camera timeline lists significant milestones and cameras representative of the year, as well as some curiosities and evolutionary dead-ends, from 1900. The timeline does not include developments in lenses, film processes or camera phones. These can...

Why Timeless? A black white image with that timeless quality Black and white images often possess a timeless quality that is more difficult to achieve with colour images. This is largely because colour provides more visual clues as to when...

Enough to Convert a Pianist When a photograph is converted to mono and the colour removed, what remains is tone. Tone is in fact one of the reasons black and white photography has continued to be popular after the advent...

We have had colour photography since the 1930s and the invention of Kodachrome, though it took until the 1970s for it become the norm.  So why has black and white photography persisted? Perhaps the most obvious difference between colour and...