I haven’t had much luck so far with the Russian made Smena camera. In my last attempt, the Smena 8M busted on me whilst rewinding the film, so I decided to try the more modern looking, and later produced, Smena
Some photos from the Smena 35 camera


I haven’t had much luck so far with the Russian made Smena camera. In my last attempt, the Smena 8M busted on me whilst rewinding the film, so I decided to try the more modern looking, and later produced, Smena

When I lived close to the city of Adelaide, I used to go in every week. The traffic and the crowds never bothered me; though I must say that my favourite place was (and still is) the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

I don’t get out quite as much as I’d like for photographic purposes, but when I do I like to make as many quality photos as possible. A few weeks ago, we were all invited to a special evening at

A few years back we stayed for a few days at Glenelg; a traditional tourist mecca in Adelaide featuring heavily trafficked becahes, restaurants and amusement areas. I used my little silver Olympus Pen EPM1 with the lowly but fun Olympus

I posted recently about our trip to parts of the Murray River, and my experiences with the Industar lens I’d packed by mistake. It turns out that I made another mistake that day, but I’ll get to that in a