FED 2 - Ilford HP5+ 400

 For the second half of my walk on the last day of February, I switched to my FED 2 that I had loaded with Ilford's finest HP5+ 400. My lens of choice to use on my FED 2 is the Jupiter 8 50mm f/2 and this Soviet era camera and lens were heavily influenced by Leica designs. The FED factory in Kharkiv, Ukraine was destroyed during WW2 and was quickly rebuilt after the war and back into production by 1950, giving employment to men and women demobbed after the war ended.

The FED 2 was made between 1955 and 1970, I believe mine is a FED 2d and had been serviced at some point before it came to me. This is the important thing to remember if you decide to give a former Soviet Union camera a try. There are vendors out there who will sell you a fully serviced camera that will give you years of reliable use for a reasonable price.

You can get lucky on ebay, as I did, but it really is a gauntlet that will bite you in your wallet all too easily. Stephen Dowling wrote an excellent guide to buying Soviet cameras on Kosmo Foto you can visit using the link below. It's well worth doing research for any camera, but for the budding Soviet camera owner it really is a necessity. Caveat Emptor, etc.

Over winter there has been a lot of work been done to improve the paths and give more people access to the local countryside and I was really pleased to find the second half of my walk has changed from being on a muddy, ancient trackway to a smooth, asphalt path. I mentioned the improvement to the pathways last week, but the extent of those improvements is much longer than I have been used to thus far. Almost all the second half of my walk was on the new path and it's good to see my taxes being spent to improve access for everyone. If you're riding a bicycle, pushing a pram or a disabled person riding an electric buggy, the new and improved paths are well worth using.

I was really enjoying my walk, taking photographs of the route and the gnarly trees that I found interesting along the way. I was having so much fun I wasted a few frames by forgetting to remove my lens cap. This is the bad thing about using a rangefinder. They don't have a through the lens viewfinder, nor the protection of a mirror between the lens and shutter, so I have to concentrate more than I do when using one of my basic viewfinder cameras or an SLR.

Daft me forgot and had to retrace steps to retake a few shots that I got excited about. It happens to the best of us, from total novices, enthusiasts with a few years experience and even to the odd professional. I do have a great reason for putting the lens cap back on. A common problem with Soviet rangefinders is pinholes in the shutter curtains. This is caused by sunlight being magnified by the lens and burning through the cloth curtain.

The aperture does not close fully after each time you release the shutter. With it being a really sunny afternoon, I was being cautious and put the lens cap back after taking a photo, but let it slip my mind a time or two. It's a daft mistake to make and I'm owning it. We shall never speak of it again. Well, until next time I do it, lol. I saved my last few shots for the duck pond in the hope the surface would be like a mirror, and it was. With my last shots done, I made my way home for a well earned brewski.

I developed my roll of HP5+ 400 in Kodak HC-110 1+31 dilution B for 5 minutes at 20 celcius and soon had it hanging to dry in my bathroom. I had continued to meter with my Gossen Trisix and I managed to get well exposed photos on this roll of HP5. My day without batteries was, and always will be very therapeutic.

I digitised it with my Nikon D700 and Tamron Adaptall 2 90mm f/2.5 macro lens mounted on my K&F Concept tripod. My film was held in my Valoi 35mm film holder mounted on my Pixl-Latr and lit using my A5 sized led light pad. I processed the RAW files with Affinity Photo 2.

I'm quite happy with my effort as it's been a while since I used my FED 2. Ukraine has a great history of building decent quality Soviet era rangefinder cameras derived from Leica and Contax. The first editions are direct copies, but there's always someone with an idea for an improvement.

Even today, with no cameras being manufactured in Ukraine, there are still trained technicians and engineers who know these cameras literally inside out. They tweak and refine each camera that comes to them and there's a lot more good quality Soviet era cameras thanks to their dedication to their craft.

My photos turned out well thanks to the sunshine and I had a lot of fun using my FED 2 again. It wont be long before I use it again as Papa Shitty Cams has organised another #CrappyCommieCameraParty starting on June 1st and running through the summer. if you fancy joining in, all you need is a Soviet era camera from any of the former Soviet Union nations, plus East Germany and China. We are posting our photos, the good, the bad and the ugly, on Bluesky. We might even dance like Cossacks.

Here's a few of my favourites from my roll of Ilford HP5 shot with my FED 2 and Jupiter 8 50mm f/2 lens on the last sunny afternoon in February 2025. As always, I have placed them and more in an album on Flickr you can visit using the link below. I hope you enjoy them.

Kosmo Foto Guide To Buying Soviet Cameras 
Fed2 - Jupiter 8 - Ilford HP5 

Frugal Film Project 2025 - February

 It's been a while and seems like I have missed a month. I got January's roll done on the second day of the year. It was on the last day of February, very nearly 2 months later, when I was able to get out on a glorious afternoon to shoot my February roll of Type 517 Cine Film. There was three, yes three hours of daylight left in the month as I headed off to my local countryside to find something to photograph for the project.

I deliberately left it late this time because I have been frying my brain with a project that my friends and I in the Photozine Collective have been working on, with the aim of producing a Photo Zine with profits going to Asthma & Lung UK. I will do a blog for that when we are ready to announce it properly, but it's safe to say it drove me quite mad.

The Photography Gods must have recognised my efforts and blessed me with a superb afternoon for photography. Overhead the skies were clear with clouds over the hills in the distance giving me a nice back drop for a few shots. There's nothing special about my compositions, they are locations I have shot many times, but not with this film.

My January film was shot on a sunny day in town with lots of shadows and contrast. This month I was able to take advantage of the sunshine in my local countryside and also found several gnarly trees to photograph. The shadows and highlights snaking along the twisted branches caught my eye and I couldn't resist them. I metered with my trusted Gossen Trisix and dialed in my focal distance with my Watameter rangefinder, ensuring I was having a battery free experience.

Once I got confident with my focal distance I was able to work quickly at each of my locations, but I had to loiter a while and admire the scenery in various places. It's been a long winter and sunny days have been few and far between. Taking time to just look at the view on a sunny afternoon really does soothe the soul.

I was really enjoying my afternoon walk and it wasn't long before I had finished my film, happy with what I found, and with an hour or so of daylight left. I put my Kodak Retina 1a in my bag and got my FED 2 out, which I had loaded with HP5, for the second half of my walk, but that one's for another blog.

I developed my February roll of Type 517 Cine Film in Kodak HC-110 1+31 dilution B for 14 minutes and 30 seconds at 20 celcius. It's a long time to develop a film in dilution B, but well worth the effort, as I saw when I was hanging it to dry in my bathroom. Once dry I digitised it with my Nikon D700 and Tamron Adaptall 2 90mm f/2.5 macro lens mounted on my K&F Concept tripod. My film was held nice and flat with my Valoi 35mm film holder mounted on my Pixl-Latr and illuminated with my A5 sized led light pad. I processed my RAW files with Affinity Photo 2.

 Whilst editing my photos with Affinity Photo 2 I knew immediately I had done a good job of this months roll of Tye 517 Cine Film. My exposures were decent and developing was again right on the money for this film. I also took my time to dial in my DSLR when digitising my photos to take full advantage of my Nikon D700's legendary dynamic range. This left me with a simple and easy reversal and small tweaks as I processed the RAW files, which suits me just fine.

I did encounter a problem when I got to my open country shots, scratch marks across a few frames were glaringly obvious and I did try to remove them, but wasn't entirely successful. I'm not too stressed about it as it is expired film and it could be either the film or some grit in my camera. I gave my camera a good clean and will know for sure after I develop my next roll.

Regardless of that little problem I got some great photos on my February roll of Type 517 Cine Film. It loves sunny days and has enough dynamic range to forgive mistakes we might make with a stop of exposure either side of the right one. With the aid of my Gossen Trisix and my Watameter Rangefinder, I managed to make a pretty decent go of it for this roll, and with no batteries required!

Here's a few favourites from my February roll of Type 517 Cine Film shot in my local countryside for the Frugal Film Project 2025. As always, I have placed them and more in my Frugal Film Project 2025 album on Flickr that you can visit using the link below. I hope you enjoy them.

Frugal Film Project 2025 - February

Afga Isolette I - Ilford FP4+

I have waxed lyrical about my fondness for my Agfa Isolette I in the past. They are cheap to buy and a great way into medium format for anyone willing to give it a try. If you want one, the usual caveats apply to any used camera, condition is everything. Avoid the "fungus farms" and buy a nice clean example, which is usually a good sign it has been looked after, as was the case with my Agfa Isolette I when I liberated it from ebay for not much cash.

I really enjoy using my Agfa Isolette I, it's simple to use and has handy red dots for those of us too lazy or not too bothered about getting creative with it. Set your aperture to f/11, distance to 30 feet and snap away! All you need to worry about is your shutter speed. I metered the light with my trusted Gossen Trisix selenium light meter set at 100 iso. The extra 25 iso with FP4+ 125 really makes no difference to it.

I shoot familiar compositions from slightly different angles, and to be fair use mostly the same settings. Shooting at f/11 with the distance at 30 feet gets most stuff from 10 feet to infinity in focus. I adjust the shutter speed and aperture as needed, especially when I get to the shaded woodland paths.

I headed to The Wash and, you probably guessed it already, my old friend the lone tree there. I have enjoyed photographing this tree over the years. It's solitary position gives me a range of angles and I have come to favour a couple, especially on a sunny day. I like to photograph it with my back to the sun or at 90 degrees to the sun, but anywhere between 90 degrees either side is good.

I also took a few shots of the derelict car that is still slowly rusting away. Each time I see it, there's a few more dents and dings thanks to the kids that play on it. Every year it loses a little mass and in the years to come will eventually rust into the ground, but it will still be around for a good while yet.

I headed to the woodland path where there has been a lot of activity over winter. The once muddy bog of a path has been given a complete make over and is now a smooth asphalt path. This has been warmly welcomed by everyone who uses the path regularly and disabled folks who get about on electric buggy's can now enjoy the path too. Drainage from The Wash has been improved, the ditch cleared and routed further from the path.

A lot of the dead trees have been removed too. Ash Die Back has blighted woodlands across the UK and beyond, killing many trees. In most places the dead trees have rotted down into the soil, but in places like our local woodland paths, there were a number of dead trees that were still standing and eventually they would fall.

Before they fell on someone, our local Council invested in having them felled and removed. They also took the plunge and invested in improving the path and I'm glad my local taxes have been used in this way. I photographed a number of trees that line the path and headed on my way to my favourite tree by the farm.

I'm sure a lot of you are probably sick of the sight of my favourite tree, but I'm most certainly not. It's my barometer, my window on the seasons and it is just about to grow it's foliage for 2025. Late February is a magical time as snowdrops dazzle us with their white bell shaped flowers and crocus begin to rise from the ground, ready to bloom in early March.

Through photographing my local countryside over the years, I have developed an appreciation of nature and the pace Mother Nature operates at. It changes by the day, particularly at this time of year as winter comes to a close and spring begins. It also clears away my winter blues and gives me hope for the coming year ahead.

I took my last few photos as I walked along the farm road and headed back towards home. The fields are looking greener as this years crop begins to grow and the Sheep have been moved to their home farm, complete with the few lambs born this year already. I took one last shot through the trees to the houses on the other side of the valley and headed for home and a well earned brew.

It was a few days later when I recovered from my long afternoon walk and I got around to developing my roll of Ilford FP4+ in Kodak HC-110 1+31 dilution B for 8 minutes at 20 celcius and soon had it hanging to dry in my bathroom. I digitised it with my Nikon D700 and Tamron Adaptall 2 90mm f/2.5 macro lens mounted on my K&F Concept tripod. My film was held nice a flat with my Valoi medium format film holder mounted on my Pixl-Latr and illuminated with my A5 sized led light pad. I processed the RAW files with Affinity Photo 2.

As I processed my images I was reminded of the beautiful afternoon that I had yearned for in the first couple of months of 2025. It was a very enjoyable walk, yet totally exhausting. I was, as is usual for me, using more than one camera and having a heck of a lot of fun. My trusty Gossen Trisix got my exposures pretty much dialled in and I didn't have to do too much to them to be fair. Just a little dust removal and spotting out the scratches as well as adjusting the levels to my liking.

Here's a few photos from my wander in the countryside with my Agfa Isolette I on a gloriously sunny afternoon at the back end of February 2025. I love using this camera and it wont be long before it gets another outing. It may even live in the opposite pocket to dear old Baldy The Baldax, ready to go whenever it's needed. As always I have put these photos and more in an album on Flickr for you to view in full resolution via the link below. I hope you enjoy them.

 

 

Mini Zines On Sale March 1st 2025

 No full blog this week, I have been busy with my obligations to The PhotoZine Collective, a group of dedicated, like-minded film photographers whose aim is to promote and publish Photo Zines with various themes to guide us.

We have been busy having fun and we have a collection of Mini Zines ready for sale on March 1st via our Ko-Fi site. There are only 12 sets of 17 Mini Zines available which have been lovingly collated and packaged by Ian who put a lot of thought into how to present our fun project, done during the horrid weather we have endured this winter. When a photographer can't get out, it's time to get creative with the photos we have.

Over winter we have also been busy with our annual Photo Zine to raise money for Asthma & Lung UK, a Charity close to John Whitmore's family. As I write this the deadline has passed for submissions and our intrepid editors are busy collating everyone's work ready for publication in the coming months.

I have to be honest, I thought I wasn't going to be able to contribute to this years Zine, but I made a big effort and now my brain is fried. I am utterly exhausted, both mentally and physically to the point where I am still trying to recover from a photowalk on a rare sunny day near the end of February.

Trying to get photos for a major project and keeping my blog going has been tough this winter. I had to invoke my spare blog, but it was worth it to continue my involvement with this very worthy cause to honour a chap whose infectious enthusiasm for film photography and silly humour enthralled, entertained and inspired us. 

More details and previews of our work can be found on the Photozine Collective website with the sale of our Mini Zines going live at 7PM UK time on March 1st via our Ko-Fi site. You can visit both using the links below and we sincerely hope you enjoy them.

PhotoZine Collective 2024 Mini Zine Collection
Ko-Fi.com - PhotoZine Collective 

Ferrania Orto 50

*This blog was written in February 2024 and sat for a time in case I needed it. I am working on a couple of projects and haven't anything for this week and, well, I'm glad I have a spare.

Ferrania have been working hard to increase their footprint in the film manufacturing business. I spoke of their excellent P30 black and white film in my first blog of 2024 and they have brought a new film to the market. Orto 50 has been in the stores for a few months as I write this and thanks to my friend Keith's generosity, I had a roll to try out and see what I thought of it. Orto 50 is a 50 iso film that needs a lot of light to bring out the best of it, so of course I left it until a gloomy day in winter to get my first impression of it.

Orto 50 is an "Orthochromatic" film and is only sensitive to blue and green light. It can safely be handled and processed under a red safelight in a darkroom without getting fogged or accidentally exposed. A "Panchromatic" film, such as Ilford HP5 and Kodak Tri-X, must be handled and processed in total darkness. It's a subtle difference and it can produce some funky results.

Because the film is not sensitive to red light, you can't use a red filter with it, you would just end up with black photos. It also means you can have a little fun with traffic lights and red signs. Post boxes and old red phone boxes here in the UK also show up black and if you like portraiture, bright red lipstick turns your model into a Goth.

I chose a dull day to shoot my roll of Orto 50 because I can be a little too impatient at times. I fully intend on getting more later in the year to make full use of what sunshine we get during spring and summer, but for a first use I had some fun and tested the limit of it's ability in dark, wet, cold, dull and gloomy Wigan.

I developed my roll of Orto 50 with Kodak HC110 dilution 1+119 for 30 minutes at 20 celcius. Ilford Ilfostop and Fotospeed FX30 finished my developing and I hung the film to dry overnight. I digitised it with my Nikon D700, Tamron Adaptall 2 90mm f/2.5 macro lens, Valoi 35mm film holder, Pixl-Latr and a5 led light pad. Raw files were processed using Affintiy Photo 2.

I wasn't sure about this roll given the dull day so I went long and gentle with developing and It seemed to do the trick. I was able to bring the photos to life in post processing, but see for yourself. Here's a few faves from my roll of Ferrania Orto 50 and as always I have placed them and more in an album on Flickr you can visit using the link below. I hope you enjoy them.

Ferrania Orto 50

TT Artisan Meter II - A new toy in my kit.

Light is a wonderful thing. It is made up of gazillions of photons, particles of pure energy produced in Stars. It is the energy we rely upon to see and to keep warm. It is also the one thing we have to be able to read in order to take a decent photo. To do this we need a system that can read the ambient or reflected light. Most "modern" cameras have a light meter built in to help us, but not all the cameras that I use have that luxury. I have to use an external light meter and the first type is something we all have, Mk.1 Eyeballs.

Our eyes are designed to detect photons that are emitted by and stars and reflected off everything in our universe. To read the light simply look around. If it's dull, your iris' will open up to let more light through your pupils and into your eyes. A camera lens works exactly the same way, open the aperture on your lens and more light can get through to your film or sensor if you like digital witchcraft!

To help us there is something called "Sunny 16". This a simple system we can all learn for those days when our chosen camera has no working built in light meter, or indeed, one at all. We look at the conditions, we watch the clouds, we observe. If it's bright and sunny with no clouds in the sky, set your camera lens to f/16, set your camera shutter speed to 1/500th of a second and have fun. I use Sunny 16 a lot and generally it works out fine. It teaches you a lot and you learn to adapt to your local conditions all year around. I have learned that here in Wigan we get a lot of 1/250th at f/11 kind of days in summer and on dark winter days it's more like 1/60th at f/8.

What do you do if the conditions are variable, sunny for a minute or three, then the clouds move in for a bit? I am notorious for forgetting stuff courtesy of my brain injury, so I went hunting for a simple memory reminder that I could keep in my pocket and bring out if I wasn't sure what settings to use. Andy's Handy Exposure Calculator is a simple, sliding scale you can make at home from paper or card. I took a leap of faith, gave it a try and it has helped me enormously over the years. You can find it at Andy's Handy Exposure Calculator where there's two versions. I use the mini and, though it may look a little "Heath Robinson DIY", it works.

On the other end of the tech there are a multitude of apps for smart phones, both Android and the infernal iPhone. I use Light Meter Free that I found on Google Play and it's a handy thing to have as a back up. I don't like reaching for my phone every time I want to take a film photo, but it was free, doesn't take much space on my phone and it's there if I need it. You can find a light meter to suit your needs in the App store and Google Play.

Most days you will see me using my Gossen Trisix selenium light meter. Selenium is a wonderful substance that creates an small electrical charge when it is exposed to light. Clever people in the 20th century learned how to use selenium to power a circuit that moves a needle and tells you how much light you have to work with. My Gossen Trisix was a gift from my friend Owen, but it is going to fail at some point. Entropy is our nemesis so I went hunting for a more modern solution that wont look out of place on my vintage cameras.

After a lot of thinking I bought a TT Artisan Meter II that fits on the shoe mount of my camera or can be hand held and hung around my neck on lanyard looped over the shoe. Made from Aluminium, it has a battery operated light meter circuit that uses Cadmium in a CdS cell in much the same way that my Gossen Trisix uses Selenium. The difference is Cadmium needs an external power source to start it's light metering capability. A CdS cell does not degrade and will last as long as batteries to power it are available.

The meter is easy to operate.You can set your meter to your film speed, point it at what you want to photograph and there's a basic three light indicator. Red Positive means over exposure, Green Dot means you have the right exposure and Red Minus means it's underexposed. Adjust the dial on the left for your aperture and the dial on the right for your shutter speed.

It's also important to remember to stay within the maximum shutter speed on your camera and the aperture range on your lens. There's no point using a shutter speed of 1/1000th if your camera only goes to 1/200th like my Agfa Isolette or 1/300th like my Balda Baldax. The TT Artisan Meter has a shutter speed range between 1 second and 1/2000th with an aperture range between f/1 and f/22 so there's plenty to work with.

You just know I had to test all of them to see how the modern TT Artisan compares to my Mk.1 eyeballs, Andy's Handy Exposure Calculator and my Gossen Trisix. I loaded a roll of Rollei 400s into Baldy and my Olympus 35RC, and headed into the countryside near my home.

I took photos of trees, bushes and interesting shapes I found in them. I metered with the TT Artisan and my Gossen Trisix and they confirmed what Andy's handy Exposure calculator and my Mk.1. eyeballs suggested, it was a 1/250th f/11 kind of day with the odd sojourn to 1/125th and 1/60th at f/8 and f/5.6 for closer shots in the shade. I also managed to confuse myself a time or two and produced a couple of howlers.

We shall speak no more of them, I was having fun and, after finishing my roll of Rollei Retro 400s in my 35RC, I fished Baldy the Baldax from my pocket and carried on. I finished that roll too and by that time, I was done in, both mentally and physically, and headed home for a well earned rest.

I developed my film a couple of days later using my rapidly dwindling supply of Kodak HC110 1+31 dilution B for 10 minutes at 20 celcius, as per the handy table on the film box, and soon had it hanging to dry. I digitised both rolls with my Nikon D700, Tamron Adaptall 2 90mm f/2.5 macro lens, Valoi film holders, Pixl-Latr and A5 sized led light pad. I processed the RAW files with Affinity Photo 2.

I wish January wasn't so dark, wet, cold, dull and gloomy here in darkest Wigan. I got a couple of nice photos, but the rest are, well... dark, wet, cold, dull and gloomy. At least the sky was moody. I'm glad to say my new TT Artisan Light Meter handled it rather better than my Mk.1 eyeballs did.

Note to self, in winter, start using auto-focus cameras! My eyes aren't what they used to be and they weren't great to start with. I was able to save some of the slightly less blurred ones, but overall they are a good indication that this new meter is accurate and I'm happy with my purchase. Nw I need new spectacles. It never ends!

Here's a few photos of my light metering kit and some photos that I took on my walk. I can control most things, but the weather is a law unto itself here. We have had days where it was sunny at the front of our house and absolutely chucking it down with rain in the back garden. Mother Nature has a rather wicked sense of humour, but she has given me a couple of things to explore for an upcoming 'Zine I would like to contribute to. I hope you enjoy them.

 

127 Day - Out and about with my Kodak Brownie 127

 127 day is one of the fun challenges for film photographers to enjoy at various times of year. The idea is to shoot 127 film in a 127 format camera on a date that reads 1-27 and give this often overlooked smallest of the medium format cameras some love. I was fortunate enough to be given a Kodak Brownie 127 a couple of Christmases ago by my daughter who reckoned I would have some fun with it. She was not wrong. However, getting film was challenging to begin with.

I managed to find a couple of rolls of Rera Pan 400 127 film at Bristol Cameras here in the UK. It was tough to find 127 film at the time, I was lucky to find a few rolls with a long use by date and took part in my first 127 day a while later. I thoroughly enjoyed that experience and wrote about it in a blog post you can read via the link below. Sadly I allowed other projects to take over my photography and my Brownie 127 was left on the shelf. That changed in January 2025.

January 27th 2025 dawned brightly and I was determined not to miss it. I loaded a roll of Rera Pan 400 into my Kodak Brownie 127 and headed into town. My compositions are nothing special, just my favourite buildings in town. The fact I took these photos with a 1950's bakelite camera that has a small viewfinder, a meniscus lens and one setting of "sort of" 1/50th at "kind of" f/14 and you have a recipe for an hour or two of fun.

The Kodak Brownie was the "point and shoot" camera everyone could afford in the 1950's. Bakelite was the miracle plastic that was cheap to manufacture and could be moulded to any shape you wanted, within reason of course. The Kodak Brownie 127 was made here in the UK and over 250,000 were exported to the USA and Canada between May 1953 and September 1954, making it one of Kodak's most popular cameras. That's not bad for a basic camera.

It's also a quarter of a million people who perhaps got their first taste of film photography with a Kodak Brownie 127. Many were used for a while and either discarded, given away or just left in a drawer or a box in the loft, never to see the light of day again. They could well be still out there, waiting for a new custodian. Others were used to death before becoming a much loved ornament on a shelf, proudly displayed alongside more technically advanced cameras as the one that started it all.

My Brownie was found in a second hand shop and has been given a new lease on life thanks to my daughters thoughtfulness. To be honest I love its simplicity and the photos, well, see for yourself! It didn't take long to shoot 8, yes 8 photos! There's no snapping away like a tourist with this bad boy. I picked my shots and just managed to get the last of the light before the rain came and sent me home, happy that I had taken part in the first 127 day of 2025.

I developed my roll of Rera Pan 400 in Kodak HC 110 1+31 dilution B for 6 minutes at 20 celcius and soon had it hanging to dry in my bathroom. I digitised it with my Nikon D700, Tamron Adaptall 2 90mm f/2.5 macro lens, Pixl-Latr and A5 size led light pad. I processed the RAW files with Affinity Photo 2.

Here's my 8 photos from my roll of Rera Pan 400 shot using my Kodak Brownie 127 for the first 127 day of 2025. I am happy with what I achieved on the day and will be doing it again when us Brits get our 127 day on the 12th July, (12-7 - get it?). I have more 127 film in my fridge, but I'm not too worried about 127 film being a scarce anymore. The good folks at Shanghai Film are producing Shanghai 100 GP3 127 film which is available from many retailers around the world. Huzzah! As always I have placed all my photos in an album on my Flickr account you can visit using the link below. I hope you enjoy them.

127 Day - 27th January 2025
Kodak Brownie 127