This piece was originally written for the website 35mmc. If you haven't visited Hamish's site yet, do it. This is a camera that I would guess everyone is familiar with. It’s not a complicated piece of machinery and millions were made in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Made famous in the UK by various tv…
5 Frames with the Minolta Maxxum 7000
I was recently looking for another 35mm camera and, browsing the web one lunchtime, I came across some reviews of the Minolta Maxxum 7000. A while later I found one at a local camera fair with the classic 50mm f1.7 lens. The vendor assured me that it was in working condition and although I had…
Shooting with a dead format
In 1996 Kodak introduced the Advanced Photo System, or APS. Aimed largely at the consumer market, we could now buy film smaller than 35mm in a single cartridge, load it into specially designed cameras without having to spool film, so no risk of the film coming loose from the end spool, and shoot. You could…
What to photograph next?
So now that the rugby league season in Toronto has been brought to a successful conclusion, I'm left with the question as to what I should be looking to photograph over the winter. The Toronto Wolfpack won't be back in town until at least early May which leaves a bit of a void in the…
My first sports photography assignment – The Toronto Wolfpack
Followers of this blog will know that for the past few weeks I have been taking pictures of the Toronto Wolfpack rugby league team's matches at Lamport Stadium. Playing in the English third tier of professional rugby league, mainly against semi-pro teams it has to be said, the Wolfpack have stormed their way through the…
Toronto Wolfpack (sports photography again)
For the past couple of matches of the Toronto Wolfpack rugby league team I've taken my D7100 and Sigma 70-200 f2.8 lens and got some shots that I've been very pleased with. Obviously the range of the 70-200 is limited so this week I took the 2x Extender and used that on the D610 in…
Toronto Wolfpack vs All Golds
This weekend saw the unbeaten Toronto Wolfpack take on the Gloucester All Golds, the only professional rugby league team owned by a British university. Unfortunately for the All Golds they weren't able to halt Toronto's inexorable march to the Championship, but they played well and showed bags of spirit on a very warm Canadian summer…
