My birthday was last week, and I have a new toy! Kat managed to hunt down from ebay a Mamiya c330f (shipped from Pakistan!) medium format twin lens reflex. Thanks! :) I’ve had my seagull (below, right) for a few years now, and it’s been lots of fun and served me well. It was already a cheap knockoff camera though, and ever since I broke the ground glass focusing screen and did a dodgy fix, replacing it with tracing paper, it just hasn’t been quite right.

Many of the shots I took with the seagull in Morocco were unsharp and so I’m really happy to retire it in favour of the great lens in the new Mamiya, which is a beautiful, quality piece of machinery. Looking forward to running off the first few rolls.