Author Archives: andytree101

I had been given a small batch of film that was way out of date. I’ve dumped the colour, or rather the film in the cassettes and just using them to reload with bulk film. I’ve worked my way through the few rolls of HP5, and that left remaining 1 roll of Ilford XP2 Super,Continue reading “XP2 Super in B/W Chemistry”

I am very lucky where I live, in that there are four or five nature reserves close buy. Slop Bog, is one of them. It is walking distance to get there, and although it is surrounded by road and housing (mostly) it can be a quiet oasis, certainly a “get away from it all” forContinue reading “Slop Bog”

I made my way to San Francisco, I’d been before on a previous trip by this point. I arrived lunchtime one day but my flight home was the following afternoon from LA. I decided that I’d book a flight from SF to LA, and just change planes for the international flight. I phoned and bookedContinue reading “End of my USA trip”

I’ve purchased another camera – yes I know, I don’t need yet another, but like most of my “keeper” cameras, this has a bit of a story to it. First of all it’s in beautiful condition. I would say as new. It was boxed with all the documents, has lived in it’s proper ERC (EveryContinue reading “Nikon FE2”

My first job after leaving school was at a local processing lab called Photomasters. I wrote about that here. My second job was fairly short lived, in another lab nearby. After that I didn’t have a gap year, I had a gap few months, when I went to Canada. On my return I started workingContinue reading “Winding back the clock”

… in 4 cameras As one approaches Dorchester from the south, from way outside the town there used to be an avenue of trees. I can just about remember them from my childhood (I think!). They’ve long since gone. I suspect they were elm and disappeared like so many others with the Dutch Elm DiseaseContinue reading “A Tale of 2 trees”

Continuing on with my re-visit, i.e. scanning negs from the 1990’s – I reach Grand Canyon. I’ve been very lucky to have visited again after this, but that first glance into the huge, expansive canyon, takes some beating. The image above is a photoshop creation. Back in the day when confronted with such a view,Continue reading “Grand Canyon”

A while ago I wrote about the closure of the “Cine and Video Club” that I was once a member of. It was housed in a hut, that I believed was a relic of WW2 – now I’m not so sure! You can read that story here. Quite by accident I found another hut butContinue reading “Another Hut”

Last post but one I wrote about how my Hasselblad seemed to have jammed itself whilst not being used in a bag. I made a “googled repair”, i.e. unjammed it! It was high time that I actually put a roll of film though it, so I set off on a lunchtime walk around Dorchester. IContinue reading “First and Last in Hasselblad”

I like digital photography, I just like film photography more! I think I got my Fuji X-Pro2 back in 2018. It’s served me well for 5 years, still looks like new, perhaps that’s because I’ve made only 3100 images with it. My output has gone more and more back towards film. I have one otherContinue reading “Fuji X-Pro 2”