Keith Devereux

This year (2026) has not got off to a good start, photographically speaking. For a start, the weather has been atrocious. We’re in the middle of what is being called on the news, a ‘comboio de tempestades’ (train of storms, with Ingrid on her way out and Storm Josef following quickly behind. Now storm Kristin is upon us, with 140km/h winds, and destruction across much of Portugal, and storm…

Unusually, I’m going to start this post off with a disclaimer and a warning. If you try to follow these guidelines to make a Charmera full-spectrum and kill the camera, like I did, it’s not my fault. This was my experience and it kind of worked, and then it didn’t. Also, and I’ll get this out at the start: always  make sure that the microSD card is removed from the camera. In this post I suggest…

This always happens to me: I had this urge (again) to try some circuit bending. This involves getting a cheap digital camera, taking it apart and poking some wires into the connectors on the sensor, which if done right can produce some lovely glitchy images, but if done wrong can wreck the camera, so it has to be a device that you don’t mind possibly losing. The second-hand electrical discount…

Back when I was a kid, I really wanted an Action Man. My best friend, Alex, had one, and with all the accessories and uniforms we had a great time playing in his house and garden. I pestered my parents for ages, and eventually they relented and brought home … a Tommy Gunn. A what? This wasn’t Action Man! I got over my disappointment quite quickly, though, and whenever we went to the little toy…

A little bit of fun with this post. We’re having a few days away at a resort in the Maldives. Normally, at this time of year the weather is warm and sunny, but this year the rainy season is clinging on. As a result, the TV channels were really glitchy, and I couldn’t resist recording a few frames. If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow my…

This week it’s Ann-Christine’s turn to host the Challenge, and her theme is ‘Dreamy‘. On her blog, To See a World in a Grain of Sand … she writes, ‘what is ”dreamy” for you, and how do you create a dreamy picture?’ Ann-Christine tells us the dictionary definition of ‘dreamy’, and also a photographic description of using, ‘soft light, soft focus, delicate tones, and other … aspects to produce…

A while ago, I picked up a beautiful Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 medium format folding camera for next to nothing from the Kamerastore website. It was cheap because it had, ‘flaws that will affect typical use.’ In this case, the ‘viewfinder has haze and fungus inside’. Otherwise, it was described as being in working condition. After a few weeks, I took it out with a roll of Lomochrome Turquoise, and…

Way back in June I made my first redscale film, and I loved it. Since then, whenever I decant some 35mm film into Rapid canisters, the odds are that at least one of the canisters will be redscaled. Just recently, I picked up some Lomochrome Turquoise film especially to decant into Rapid canisters, as that’s one film stock that I’ve really wanted to try with a Rapid camera, so of course as well as…

Back in the early 1960s, in response to Kodak’s introduction of its instamatic film system, the European film and camera company Agfa launched the Rapid system. Actually, it’s more accurate to say that they reintroduced their 1940s Karat film system under a new name. Instead of a sealed plastic cassette, the Agfa Rapid system used metal canisters, which contained a length of 35mm film. Inside the…

This post has been sitting in my draft folder since the middle of September,  and I’ve just realised that I haven’t posted it, and it’s now October. Oops! I had actually submitted  one of the images for the World Wide Half Frame Photography Day, and I guess that with all that was going on, this post just slipped through the cracks. A couple of months ago on the Frugal Film Project, I tried…

We generally spend the month of August on holiday down in Meco, which means that most of the time I don’t have my Frugal Film camera with me. This usually meansI either I miss a month, or find myself rushing around to grab something in the last couple of days after we get back. This year, though, I have the Golden Wonder, and that little beastie is small enough to carry around in a pocket. So I…

I’ve always been a sucker for panoramic images, and something like the Hasselblad X-pan panoramic camera has been on my wishlist for a long time. Of course, that’s way outside my budget, so back in 2022, or thereabouts, I bought the next best thing: the Lomography Sprocket Rocket. The Sprocket Rocket is a simple Lomography camera with just one shutter speed, of about 1/100s (and ‘bulb’), and two…

There’s been a lot of talk* between my mutuals on BlueSky about the Pentax 67, the medium format behemoth SLR from Pentax. I would love one of these humongous beasties, but it’s a camera that’s way out of my budget, and I could only dream. That being said, there is an alternative, and since it’s the Crappy Commie Camera Party at the moment it’s a perfect opportunity to explore these…

The Beirette SL 100 was originally launched by the Karl Pouva KG company of Dresden in 1972 as the Pouva Start SL 100. When the company became the state-owned Kamerafabrik Freital, the name was changed to the Beirette SL 100. In 1987, the Beirette SL 100N was introduced in a range of different colours, and I was delighted to find this lovely version in pink for not very much money.  The camera…