Like many of us of a certain age, I started with film cameras and then transferred to digital around 2000, chopping in a Canon EOS650 for a FujiFilm FinePix2800 (what was I thinking!) Prior to the 650 I'd had a Pentax ME Super, stolen during a break-in and before that a Zenit E. Next in the digital line was a Nikon D60 (which I still have) - an extremely capable camera which produced some good, if rather clinical images, and then another Canon, a 6D with the very good 24-70L and the 80-200 F2.8L (wow!) But I just couldn't get the look I wanted, either straight out of the camera or after hours in Lightroom, so that setup was replaced in 2016 by a Fuji X100T. At last! From the first shot with the X100T I was hooked by the unique Fuji combination of exquisite camera and beautiful film simulations and, after many years in the clinical wilderness, started to enjoy the look of my shots again. An X-Pro2 joined soon arrived (purely as company you understand) along with the 56mm f1.2 and a 35mm f2

And then, just after reading an article about using manual lenses on the X-Pro2, I found a Zenit B with a Helios 44-2 in a charity shop and my photography changed again. One Fuji/M42 adapter later and very, very gradually I began to see my photos as processes rather than results, to be excited by inconsistent interpretations of what I happen to encounter on a daily basis, to stop worrying about my inability to produce brilliant pixel-trophies of bucket-list locations, and to enjoy the steady shift of priorities that has been taking place since finding that 44-2 in the local Salvation Army shop. More lenses and cameras (film) have appeared (as if by magic...) and I now find myself thinking of my lenses and those amazing Fuji film simulations as paint brushes to be wielded with curiosity rather than in pursuit of optical perfection. Give me fall-off, inconsistent bokeh, dodgy clarity and I find myself enjoying the whole photographic process in a way I haven't for years.

So what's next? Well, film, obviously. Not to exclude the X100T and X-Pro2 (never!) but very recently I was lucky enough to be offered a mint ME Super f1.7 for an excellent price and so I'm going to rewind the clock more years than I care to remember, load up a few spools of film and use this website to record my process of de-digitalisation - ranging from rediscovering full-on film, learning how to develop and print, to further experiments with hybrid combinations of old lenses and Fuji magic.Most importantly however, I intend to simply enjoy my photography and, hopefully, make new friends with other photographers who also just want to dig into the simple process of recording our individual inconsistent, varied and generally unfocused worlds in the most inconsistent, varied and (slightly) unfocused ways possible.