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

A lovely rare German rangefinder with a nasty fault.

How the death of a friend landed me with a Minolta X-500 which I didn't want, but having tried it, I don't want to part with it.

A story about a problem with an outdated roll of Ilford SFX 200, and excellent service. I visited Oare Gunpowder Works in Kent, England,...

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.

Is it worth spending £189 on a table-top tripod when you can get one with the same specification for £42?