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

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.

Kase filters are a good product but the company don't respond when you try to contact them and quickly stop support for products

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

A project can be a great aid to creativity, in this blog I discuss a project to make a book of images of the North Kent coast.