Recent content by magicaxeman

That’s chelmsfords last camera shop gone, sad indeed.

Martin Henson is the main one I follow, I love his laid back style of presenting it reminds me a lot of the late Jack Hargreaves of out of town fame.

That in buying grey imports they are putting British retailers out of business as well as breaking the law by dodging the import duty and tax this has a two fold effect, the first and most serious one is that it directly affects the UK dealers sales and the resultant drop in sales means people...

Look out for the old Nikon Nikkor 300mm f4.5. They where originally the top of nikons range and are razor sharp. I picked mine up for 90 quid 5yrs ago

The only thing I would say, especially with regard to portraits is buy the biggest you can use in your available space

6.0 ft - crouching worked for me.

I enjoy using old lenses and cameras and own a few but I do have a bee in my bonnet about the misuse of the term "vintage" as the term only applies to items over 50 years old meaning anything made after 1972 is just plain old whereas I am vintage as I was made before then as was my M2 (1965) &...

Due to not being mobile at all, all my shopping is done online using either camera shops websites or eBay for secondhand gear and occasionally Amazon for odds & ends (most recently a hotshoe meter for my M2). I won't however use sites that promote/sell grey imports. Its a personal choice and...

My recipe is 1x 1970's polaroid camera, a few packs of film for it and have some fun, write in the margins around the edge like we used to, date, location, who's in the image etc. If you want a more "aged" look just put the photo's in a sunny window for a while. I was 12 in 1970 and didn't get...

If its just for one body with lens on + one other lens then I'd look at the Ona Bowery in canvas

I went the opposite way and bought the Benro Mach 3 TMA48CXL. For astro stuff you want something sturdy and rigid. It also took the small skywatcher eq head well.

For lunar/plantary objects I'd recommend a smallish Shmidtt-cassegrain. Maybe a celestron C5. C6 or C8. They're easy to fit a camera to and at F10+ have a similar focal length to much bigger refractors.

There are several folding 120 camera's with the shutter button on the left, my 1933 Zeiss Ikon nectar 515/2 6x9cm is one of them.

Just pick up an old polaroid camera of the bay and some new old stock film packs for it, you can't get more authentic than that.

100% False widow, I've had one in my window vent, keeps popping out and grabbing large moths, the thing is about 40mm across the legs.