Canon AE-1

A couple of weeks ago I was given an Canon AE-1, a camera that I'd admired a lot online. These are photos from the first film I used in it, a random colour 400 Tesco film I had. It's very grainy but I'm pleased because I like grain and I like the photos, and this film makes it clear that the camera definitely works.

Kathleen's Farm #2

Yesterday I returned to Kathleen's farm for the fourth time (I think) and had a lot of fun. Highlights of the day include half falling into a stream and getting really stuck in quicksand-like mud. I took my newly acquired Canon AE-1 with me, but for now here are the photos from my Nikon.

Praktica MTL 5

I got this lovely camera from my grandad, along with some other photography stuff such as film, it must've been about a year ago at least. It needs a new battery for the light meter but it's impossible to open it up to get it out, so I'd never really tried to actually use it properly.


Anyway I finally decided I would so I printed off an exposure chart for guidelines on what settings would be best for the weather and went out to start the test roll this morning. Although I found it difficult to load (someone really needs to make a video of how to do it properly and put it on youtube - even the instructions people have written confuse me too easily because it's different to any camera I've loaded before), it all seems to be working well so I should hopefully get some nice photos back once I've finished the roll.


To make things easy for myself I made a note of what settings I'd used on each shot so I can see how they come out when I get the roll developed. I wanted to write them somewhere where I'd remember them and not throw them away, and then I remembered I have these really nice Cath Kidston notebooks that I got as a Christmas present from my nan...