Having Fun with Film
A Blog by Rupert Brun, telling the story of my return to medium format film photography.

Although the Zeiss Ikonta and Fuji GSW690 are both 6x9 rangefinder cameras, they couldn't be more different. In this blog I compare and contrast the two.

In this blog post, I’m going to talk about the Zeiss Ikonta. In the Zeiss medium format folding camera line-up, it sits between the basic Nettar and the sophisticated Super Ikonta, is it piggy in the middle, or the Goldilocks camera? I own three Zeiss medium format folding cameras; a 518/16 6x6 Nettar, this 6x9 524/2 Ikonta and a 533/16 6x6 Super Ikonta. They are all good quality cameras shooting medium format film and mine all date from the early 1950s. They all fold to a ve

A an article about a roll of film found in a camera in a charity shop. I developed the film and was surprised at what I found.

My first outing with a Noon pinhole camera wasn't entirely successful but I know why and the next trip should be better!

In this blog I explain how the Mamiya 6 enabled "both kinds" of landscape photography on a recent holiday in Derbyshire.

I have a variety of medium format film cameras from TLR to point and shoot, but until recently, no SLR. Yes SLRs have advantages, but medium format examples are also big, heavy, noisy and vibrate when you fire the shutter, restricting hand-held shooting to the faster shutter speeds. I’ve never been tempted to get one. Until now. Why does everyone want an SLR? I’ve never understood the ubiquitous popularity of the SLR. I have nothing against them, they offer many advantages, b

or "How Low Can You Go"? The Mamiya C330f is a great camera for close-up work, unless you want to photograph something only 3 centimetres tall, fixed in the ground! I went on a Royal Photographic Society trip to Samphire Hoe; everyone else was shooting digital but I took my C330f and a precious roll of Fuji Pro 400H. The images won't win any prizes, but all things considered I'm amazed I got anything. A twin lens reflex camera must be the least suitable tool for making images

Claimed to be the "most perfect camera system”. I explain how I came to have one and why I won't be shooting Bergger 400 very often

The Zeiss Ikon Nettar epitomises slow photography, it's basic to the point of being primitive but the results can be excellent.

When I returned to medium format film photography after a gap of about 35 years, this "brand new" Mamiya C330f was my first camera.