For anyone who has been a long time reader of this blog, you’ll know that Montreal, Quebec holds a special place in my photographic story. So with my first wedding anniversary, last month and a great deal on hotel and the train my wife and I celebrated our anniversary in the city. Of course, this trip wasn’t solely for photography, I mean I had refreshingly packed light, sort of. You cannot really call the Nikon F5 light-weight, but I wanted to bring my best 35mm kit with me and have a level of automation. So with the F90 on loan, the F5 got to goRead More →

I can trace my love and hate of medium format 6×6 SLRs from my time working with the Bronica SQ system. I had a pair of them at one time, the first being the SQ-Am, which was a bear to work with and chewed through batteries like no one’s business and then the battery died. Since I had a bunch of lenses already, I grabbed the much nicer SQ-Ai, but it lacked a waist-level finder and an action grip, making the camera troublesome to use. Plus, it had a tendency to spew the batteries out. Eventually, I gave the camera away to a fellow photographer,Read More →