Hamish Gill

Kodachrome 25 K14 – My first and last ever 2 rolls and remembering the ContaxG Pages site

Meeting Jamel Shabazz - in which a chance encounter turns into a Master Class in street portraiture Photographing people is easy in an urban setting like New York because they are everywhere.  Getting good shots of people, maybe not so easy. In my early days of trying to shoot street photography in ...

Meeting Jamel Shabazz – in which a chance encounter turns into a Master Class in street portraiture

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey - part 1 - Black & White, The Dictates of the Time To offer some context, let me take you back to where it all began — a journey that, I suspect, may feel familiar to others

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time

Harman Phoenix II - My first roll and some breif thoughts on the development of this new film With that said, Phoenix II definitely seems to be a step toward a more conventional colour film. There’s still a good bit of halation

Harman Phoenix II – My first roll and some breif thoughts on the development of this new film

A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 3 I'll start with Kodak TMax 100. I'm not sure why it took this long for me to get around to TMax 100. I may have had a 40 year old recollection of not loving Kodak

A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 3

Travel Photography Tips - With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax To conclude, Travel Photography with decent results in far away places isn't difficult, you just need time, which I have never had.

Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax

VE Day - Victory in Europe Day with a Balda CA 35 and Polaroid High Definition 200 8th May is when this day is celebrated in many countries, Britain especially rejoices for Peace in Our Time. Alas, there's no peace, but war, war and more war everywhere.

VE Day - Victory in Europe Day with a Balda CA 35 and Polaroid High Definition 200

Music in Manhattan - A One Shot Story I was walking up Fifth Ave heading to a student film festival at the Paris Theater when a string quartet of young musicians caught my eye

Music in Manhattan – A One Shot Story

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Olympus OM707 - The Autofocus Underdog For people who love '80s nostalgia, the Olympus OM707 is a stylish camera system that's considerably less expensive than the competition

Olympus OM707 – The Autofocus Underdog

Fuji X Half - A Few thoughts about a camera I've not even touched The Fuji X half is different though. Yes there are little influences maybe - it looks like a film camera of some sort.

Fuji X Half – A Few thoughts about a camera I’ve not even touched

Fujifilm X half - A few frames taken with a Camera From a World I Don’t Understand And that’s the most interesting thing I found about the Fuji X half camera — it was not any one feature or quirk, but the fact that it exists at all.

Fujifilm X half – A few frames taken with a Camera From a World I Don’t Understand

Rebuilding a Canon Super 8 with Raspberry Pi My goal wasn’t to mimic film or preserve the original shooting mechanics, but to explore how a piece of vintage hardware could be used for new

Rebuilding a Canon Super 8 with Raspberry Pi

Olympus Evolt E1 - A Quest for Bluebells, Fairies and a House for Essex - Local Photo, Walks Pt2 My camera of choice was my Olympus Evolt E-1 Four Thirds 5 Mega Pixel DSLR. It's has fast become my main camera

Olympus Evolt E1 – A Quest for Bluebells, Fairies and a House for Essex – Local Photo, Walks Pt2

Let the Sky Fall - Part 1 Let thy west wind sleep on the lake; Speak silence with thy glimmering eyes, And wash the dusk with silver. – William Blake St. Andrews West Sands Beach, March 2025 An orange-and-white Brittany streak...

Let the Sky Fall – Part 1

Balda CA 35 - A Fantastic little camera shot with Kodak Eastman Double X 5222 In one word Fantastic. The Balda CA 35  has given me a pleasure of shooting because of it's limitations and simplicity.

Balda CA 35 – A Fantastic little camera shot with Kodak Eastman Double X 5222

Zeiss Nettar - Cleaning and Bringing Life Back to a Flea Fair Find The story begins with a visit to a flea fair, where I succumbed to a Zeiss Nettar for what I hoped was a reasonable price.

Zeiss Nettar – Cleaning and Bringing Life Back to a Flea Fair Find

Sony A99 - a review of the the first mirrorless full-frame EVF camera In late 2012 Sony produced a full-frame mirrorless camera. The Sony A99.For some time, Sony had been hedging its bets with regards to digital cameras.

Sony A99 - a review of the the first mirrorless full-frame EVF camera

Olympus PEN EED - The Underrated PEN The ultimate point and shoot travel-party camera? When any conversation about photography enters into the realm of half frame photography, immediately someone will mention the Olympus PEN F. Quite rig...

Olympus PEN EED – The Underrated PEN

Olympus iS-3000 ZLR Zoom lens Reflex, with Expired Fuji Reala 100 Overall I quite enjoyed my experience with this Olympus iS-3000; they're cheap to buy and give you fantastic results

Olympus iS-3000 ZLR Zoom lens Reflex, with Expired Fuji Reala 100

Kentmere 200 - My First Couple of Rolls with this Brand New 200 Speed B&W Film Back in late March, Michelle from Harman got in touch with news of yet another forthcoming film launch for 2025 - this time Kentmere 200

Kentmere 200 - My First Couple of Rolls with this Brand New 200 Speed B&W Film

Yep, it’s a Voigtlander one.

My only Leica lens is an elmar. I don’t have any others as I don’t think they give me anything I don’t get (and more) out of 3rd party lenses. The Voigtlander 40mm is modern rendering, but is cheap as chips.

Here’s the elmar:

This one isn’t collapsible as it goes - it is small though!

I loved my standard - I sold it to buy this Ic to have modded. But it was a tough choice.

Show me a better looking Barnack Leica… 😁

Svema NK-2SH ASA 100 Soviet Cinematic Film Review Svema NK-2SH is a black and white film that is a remake of the classic Soviet film NK-2. It is produced in the same city as the original, Shostka in The Ukraine

Svema NK-2SH ASA 100 Soviet Cinematic Film Review

5 frames with a Yashica T5 and a roll of Fuji Neopan 400 Once in a blue moon I like to get the old Yashica T5 out. Those who have followed the website for a while will know, this was the camera that started 35mmc. I got it for a bargain, shot some XP2 with ...

5 frames with a Yashica T5 and a roll of Fuji Neopan 400

Samoca Super 28XLM Review – A Fantastic Littler Rangefinder

Yep, he references the Contax as his design inspiration on the product page on his website