The initials ISO stand for the International Standards Organisation. Of which I am sure we have all heard of, because they set the standards for so much of the modern world! When camera film was being developed, each company set their own standard, by this I mean the sensitivity to light and the way the film reacted to light. And of course, this was only monochrome film, colour film took a long time to develop and become popular. A guy called Oskar Barnack, who worked for Lei

I bought my first camera in 1974. It was a cheap Russian camera that took standard 35mm film, what we now refer to as full frame. This camera had the absolute minimum of controls. To adjust the aperture, I used a ring on the front of the lens. There was a small dial to turn for the shutter speed. To focus, I used another slightly larger ring on the lens. On the top of the camera was an eyepiece with a prism inside, allowing me to see the mirror. What I could see appeared to b

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