I took these pictures in 2010 with a Fujifilm Instax Mini 50S, an instant camera that used Instax Mini film. It was at the high end of the Instax Mini camera line at the time, noted in particular for its stylish design in “piano black”.
Taken sometime around 2010 with a Beirette VSN 2 35 mm camera which was once sold in Boots drugstores. It was a great little 35 mm snapshot camera which, although generally considered to be a “toy camera” because of the very cheap plastic build, was equipped with a real focusing lens and traditional aperture and
I took these photos around the historic Dominion Observatory adjacent to the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa (Canada) in 2002 with a 1940’s Agfa Isolette. These are straight scans of my black & white negatives on a Canon 8400F flatbed film scanner. There were several models of the Isolette over the years. It was a
The Holga 120 S was the original model of the infamous Chinese-made Holga medium format toy camera. The current equivalent is the Holga 120 N, still available from various sources. I took these pictures in Ottawa (Canada) on black and white film sometime around 2000-2001. You could pick your film and your lighting conditions, but
The Mayfair Theatre, in the Old Ottawa South neighbourhood of Ottawa, Canada, was built during the depths of Great Depression. It’s one of only two original neighborhood cinemas still in operation in the Nation’s Capital, and one of the oldest surviving independent movie houses in Canada. I always loved going to movies, but I always
I shot these pictures with a Nikkormat Ftn during the Occupy Ottawa protest encampment in the fall of 2011. The company we all recognize as Nikon today was actually known as Nippon Kogaku, K.K., (or Japan Optical Co. in English) until 1988. Founded in 1917, it was primarily an optical lens producer until it started manufacturing
I used this mint Canon AE-1 Program briefly in the early 2010’s. I didn’t keep it, because I already had an all-mechanical Pentax K1000 and a Nikon F that both worked fine, and I wasn’t confident about the long-term viability of the camera’s electronics. Introduced in 1981, the AE-1 was one of the earliest, though
This is my Asahi Pentax. I bought it in 1979, and except for the lightmeter, it still works, although it did get a new shutter a quarter century ago. The lens is what came in the box… an SMC Pentax 50mm f/2. First introduced in 1976, the K1000 model acquired a bit of a cult
