Medium format

Week 19. Zenza BronicaA week of such promise and excitement, I have doubled up a few previous weeks with the social media fun of FP4party, this has now transformed into TMaxparty so a move from Ilford to Kodak. I have shot a couple of their 400asa with mixed results but optimism and the sight of the Bronica gave me renewed hope. The Bronie – medium format big SLR system, basically a central body with a huge array of options surrounding it with a few of those open to me for this wee ......

Week 17Kodak No 3 Folding Pocket Kodak [model E-3]Finally! I get to play with this!!! So, for many, many weeks I have looked at and admired this camera. It sits with a few other No3s on a shelf but this one really had me drooling over it. It is a big medium format folding camera producing postcard size images on now defunct 118 film with 3 1/4 x 5 ½” frames made by Kodak and built between 1903 & 1915. I can with some certainty date this one between Nov 6th 1906 & May 7th 1907. How? 1906 date ......

With so many vintage and retro cameras in our shop we decided to run this project to show that the cameras are not just for display but to be used. Each week a different camera will go out with our photographer Ashley. We will be using cameras from all different eras. About Ashley.Who am I? Ashley Brown Williams, A northerner residing in southern England Plymouth. Keen film photographer but a bit of a novice. Self taught with much advise from many talented film shooters I have gotten t ......