A winter photo walk from Deptford High Street to Greenwich Park, exploring how cold-weather light, muted tones, and quiet streets shape film photography in south-east London.

If you have spent any time around film photography , you will have encountered the Olympus OM system. Launched in 1972 with the M-1 (quickly renamed the OM-1 after a complaint from Leica), the OM line represented a direct challenge to the prevailing logic of SLR design. Where other manufacturers were building cameras that grew heavier and more complex with each generation, Olympus went the other way. The OM-1 was smaller, lighter, and quieter than almost anything else with a

Depth of field is one of those concepts that sounds technical but is felt intuitively every time you look at a photograph. It is the zone of acceptable sharpness in front of and behind the point you focused on. A portrait where the background dissolves into a wash of colour has a shallow depth of field. A landscape where everything from the foreground rocks to the distant hills appears sharp has a deep one. Understanding how to control this zone is one of the most powerful cr

Compare DSLR camera scanning with the Epson V600 and Plustek 8200i flatbed scanners. A practical guide to digitising film at home.