Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 6 September 2025
Homemade pies
Tag: Sheffield
Tucked in
I liked how this post box was nestled in snugly between the trimmed hedge, gatepost, and wall.
Usually postboxes will have a tab showing the collection times, which this one doesn’t, which made me wonder if it’s been repurposed as a letterbox for the property, but then I expect it would cause considerable confusion and result in the owners of the property getting lots of mail that people had posted.
It’s probably just missing the tab. 🙂
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 6 September 2025
In Weston Park
These follow on directly from the pictures in yesterday’s post, each being taken withing Weston Park.
The first is the wooden bridge that crosses part of the duck pond. There were few ducks around this part of the water and it was undisturbed by any breeze, so it looked somewhat stagnant, giving it an almost frozen-over look. You can also see the University of Sheffield Arts Tower at the right of the frame.
The Arts Tower is something I always seem to come away with at least one photo of when I’m in this area. It’s the second tallest building in the city at 256 feet tall (although, because of it’s position on the hilly Sheffield terrain, it’s actually much higher than it’s rival). Sheffield doesn’t have that many tall buildings (although the number is increasing) – and the ones we do have aren’t that tall in the grand scheme of things – especially compared to it’s closest city neighbours Manchester and Leeds, but neither of those are as hilly as Sheffield either, where the impact of skyscrapers is lost amongst the terrain.
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 6 September 2025
Weston Park museum and bandstand
Weston Park Museum first opened 150 years ago, originally in Weston House before the building was extended with a neoclassical design. The building houses both the museum and the Mappin Art Gallery (named after a Rotherham businessman who bequeathed his collection to the gallery).
The gallery was partially destroyed during the Sheffield Blitz in WW2 and, while the museum remained open to the public through the 50s and 60s, the art gallery was not reopened until 1965.
The Weston Park bandstand is the last surviving bandstand in the city and was built in 1900.
These pictures, and those to follow in the coming days, were all taken with the Fujica STX-1 that I bought on a whim as part of a job-lot of not-working cameras from eBay.
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 6 September 2025
More Kodak H35N pictures (part 3)
The final set of pictures from the roll of Kodak Gold I put through my Kodak H35N half-frame camera.
Kodak H35N & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 25 January 2025
More Kodak H35N pictures (part 2)
A further batch of pictures from the roll of Kodak Gold I put through my Kodak H35N half-frame camera. The remaining shots to come tomorrow.
Kodak H35N & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 25 January 2025
More Kodak H35N pictures (part 1)
Another batch of pictures from the roll of Kodak Gold I put through my Kodak H35N half-frame camera.
Kodak H35N & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 25 January 2025
Kodak H35N mini review (and Emulsive Secret Santa)
I received my invitation to take part in this year’s Emulsive Secret Santa last week. I was wondering if it would still be going ahead as Emulsive.org, the site from whence it originally sprang now seems to be defunct, having not been updated for quite some time.
So I was glad to get an email inviting me to this year’s gift exchange although, due to the current tariff situation in the US, the swap has been split into US and rest of the world sections this time around. Registration closes tomorrow, after which people will be provided with the details of their recipients and the task of finding a suitable gift begun (timescales are quite tight this time, so it’s likely that some folks will be receiving a late Christmas gift, but that’s not so bad – January can be quite glum, so a nice present arriving in the mail will cheer things up somewhat).
I was very fortunate last year to receive not only a bunch of 35mm film a lovely notebook, and other goodies, but also a Kodak H35N half-frame camera, and it was with this that I shot the pictures in today’s post (although I already posted a few others about six weeks ago).
The camera itself (branded Kodak, but actually made by RETO) is a relatively simple affair with a 2 element 22mm f/8 coated lens (part glass, part acrylic), a 1/100sec shutter speed, a built-in flash, and a built-in star filter. For it’s basic spec, the camera produces reasonable pictures if you don’t mind noticeable softness at the narrow ends of the frame. I didn’t feel any need to scan them at high resolution because the detail simply isn’t there, but at smaller size they look nice and, as is the case with any camera, it’s what you do with it that counts.
The camera design has a clear lineage to the old Kodak Instamatic models. It’s very lightweight and doesn’t feel like it will take much rough handling (but for the price, that is to be expected), but it works perfectly well in use and I didn’t have any sense that it would break – something my other RETO-made camera, an Ultrawide and Slim, does suffer from in regard to advancing the film. The film advance on the H35N was fine, as was the film rewind crank, which is located on the base of the camera along with a plastic tripod socket.
The top of the camera features the shutter button, frame counter and, because there is a bulb-mode, a cable release socket, which is nice to have and opens the camera up to additional creative possibilities. Apart from bulb, because of the otherwise fixed shutter speed and aperture settings, there is no ISO setting control, and certainly no DX-coding mechanism is required.
I didn’t have a need to use the flash at any point (and didn’t have a battery in the camera anyway – the battery is only needed for the flash), and the star filter feels somewhat gimmicky and not something I would want to use anyway. So I didn’t.
Although I like the pictures I got when using the H35N, I can’t help thinking that I would probably have liked them more if I’d taken them with a different camera – even if it would have meant using twice as much film. However, despite these reservations, I still had fun using the camera, got pictures I like, and it’s made me think about maybe getting a better specced half-frame camera somewhere down the line – maybe an older model like an Olympus PEN, or perhaps a Pentax 17 if I can find one for a decent price.
I’ll post some more pictures from the H35N tomorrow – half-frame gives you a LOT of photos!
Kodak H35N & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 25 January 2025
Classics on The Moor 2025 (Colour)
Continuing on from yesterday’s black and white pictures, here are my colour shots from this year’s Classics on The Moor.
I’m quite pleased how, in most of the shots, there are matching splashes of colour in the scene that align with the vehicle’s paintwork.
Yashicamat 124G & Kodak Portra 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 17 August 2025
Classics on The Moor 2025 (B&W)
As happens most years, I went into town on the day of the annual Classics on the Moor car show in Sheffield city centre. I took my Yashica Mat 124G with me and shot a couple of rolls of film, one black and white, the other colour. Here are the black and white images.
The same owners and cars are often present at the event, so some of these cars will have undoubtedly featured on the blog before. The little Fiat 500 certainly has.
Yashicamat 124G & Fujifilm Acros. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 17 August 2025
Steel City Snapper photography 