Category Archives: Personal

{I’m leaving Facebook…} No, not really! A personal blog post…

  Ah Facebook… I love Facebook, I really do. I’ve had the occasional love/hate thing going on with it. I know most people get this – those days when you can’t stop visiting the site, despite having already seen everything that’s going on that day in your friends’ lives. Then there’s the days when I realise...

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{Portobello} Home

We moved to Portobello last June. Those who have read my blog for a while will know that moving flat is something of an annual event for Mr O and I. To be fair, while it’s never really been our decision to move, I now can’t help but think it was all for a reason...

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{Kodak Duaflex II} An afternoon at the beach…

A couple of years ago I had a bit of an eBay shopping spree and purchased a box full of decades-old film cameras, about eight in total and all from around the late 1940s to 1960s. I still have them all and even though most don’t work, they’re fascinating to look at. Included amongst them...

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Iain Kendall - March 6, 2012 - 1:38 pm

What a great story, and what a gorgeous camera. I’m sure you were fine with the cupboard and it is more than likely the camera letting light in but it just adds character.

The Hipstamatic app is fun but it never competes with this.

I hope you’ll shoot more.

athewa - April 30, 2012 - 5:49 am

Hey! I have inherited my granfather’s Duaflex ii. I adapted the camera thanks to a tutorial on youtube. Still have not taken any picture. I have used an iso 100 film… which I understand is ok, but as an expert what do you think?… did you use iso 400 film??

Cheers!!

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