From little to large

Having spent a decade using a different film camera each week, 522 in total, I’ve slowed the pace and set myself an annual project using just one camera each month.

So it was that in 2021 I decided to use a different film format each month – starting in January with the smallest one, Minox, and then working my way up to Postcard format in December.

There is a vast difference in the size of the negatives, as the largest has an area that’s 135 times the size of the smallest.

For many of the formats I have a range of cameras, but in general I chose to use those from the more sophisticated end of the spectrum so that I wasn’t tied to photographing well-lit outdoor scenes.

The smallest commercially available film was made for the Minox ‘spy’ cameras. These precision devices were made in