East Midlands Monochrome Group

How long have I been taking pictures? Forty years, give or take a day or two and nearly all in monochrome these days.

I do a very small amount of colour work which is captured either digitally, or on negative film, and printed digitally. All monochrome work is done on film and processed and printed the proper way in the darkroom.

Most of my pictures are taken on 35mm film but I do have, and frequently use depending on circumstances, both medium format and 5x4. My latest acquisition however is a Purma Plus, a British camera manufactured in the 1950s which takes 127 film and has three shutter speeds depending on which way up it is held, great fun and capable of a quite reasonable result.