Here are my favourite images from past few weeks – some digital – some paper negatives, x-ray film etc.. It’s good to take time and look...

Self portrait- These are my first attempts at pouring liquid silver gelatine emulsion (Foma from Silverprint) onto a glass plate to make...

I love making star-trail images with my DSLR, but wanted to see what I could achieve with my 100 year old camera (Thornton Pickard...

Pleased to have successfully “married” my Dallmeyer 8″ (f2.9-11) to a, recently acquired, Thornton Pickard Imperial (Full Plate). I have...

Having started with the Victorian bellows cameras I thought I’d explore some other old cameras and see if I could use them with paper...

I was surprised to see my last post was over 3 months ago. But I haven’t been idle – far from it, especially now we are “locked down” at...

Tempted by the low price I have some 10-year-old Kodabrome photographic paper to try as paper negative in my large format 10×8 1900s...

With the arrival of a sturdy period tripod (Gandolfi) I had much more success photographing in Bristol around the Cumberland Basin today....

From my previous post it will be clear there was a serious light leak problem with my 10×8 1909 bellows field camera. Investigations in a...

Saturday – A trip to Lacock Abbey and the Fox Talbot museum with the 10×8 and 4 negatives to shoot – sadly 3 big shadows on the images. I...

Successful experiment to to use 100 yr old field camera as the enlarger for the 5×7 negatives taken with it. Key breakthrough was using a...

Today I took the 100 year old large format (10×8) camera to Wales – waterfall country. Recent heavy rains meant a good flow of water over...

Using my antique (1900s) large format (10×8) bellows field camera I have been making some successful still life images. I decided to move...

Today was time to take the New Countess full plate camera to Clevedon and try some images of the wonderful Victorian Pier. Shame it was...

With its custom replacement glass screen fitted (https://www.ebay.com/usr/virgisst ) I have made some further tests of the recently...

A windless, bright day meant I could take the Countess into the garden and learn more about how it performs. Successful experiments with...

With some decent weather I have been able to take the “New Countess” into the garden and make some more trial images, testing out the...

Having tried 10×8 photography using my cardboard cameras and being satisfied with the results I decided that it was time to “go large”....

After some success with the first cardboard box camera, and wanting to produce some large format (10×8 inch) images, I set about...

Two recent books have stirred my interest in exploring the variety of affordable vintage cameras that can still be used. The books are: ...