Written by Nasir Hamid on March 5th, 2023
Behind the scenes photography during filming of Endeavour 7 | FILM 3 in Oxford, October 2019. These pictures are long overdue and I apologise to the SA’s in these pictures who have been waiting patiently to see them, especially the man holding the newspaper who I frequently saw on subsequent series of Endeavour and every time I would promise the pictures would be posted. I got there in the end!
[Tech info:] Rolleiflex 2.8F, TMAX 400 @ ISO 800, developed in TMAX developer 1+4.


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Tags: 6x6, black&white, endeavour, film, filming, oxford, rolleiflex, s7e3, tmax400
Written by Nasir Hamid on March 3rd, 2023
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Tags: 2.8f, 6x6, black&white, endeavour, film, filming, hc110, kodak, new college, oxford, people, portraits, rolleiflex, s9e1
Written by Nasir Hamid on March 2nd, 2023
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Tags: 35mm, black&white, endeavour, film, filming, fp4, hc110, leica, m6, new college, oxford, pakon, people, s9e1, sx70, voigtlander
Written by Nasir Hamid on March 1st, 2023
Behind the scenes photography during filming of Endeavour 9 | FILM 1 in Oxford, May 2022. This was in the fellows garden of New College, a location previously used when Endeavour chases a pickpocket out onto New College Lane in series 7. I was excited to see a Polaroid SX70 camera being used in this scene and it was fully functioning. The props guy was too young to have seen one of these cameras before so I explained how to operate it and loaded a fresh pack of film for him.
[Tech info:] Rolleiflex 2.8F, Fuji Pro 400H film, Fuji Frontier scans.

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Tags: 400H, 6x6, c41, endeavour, film, filming, new college, oxford, rolleiflex, s9e1, sx70
Written by Nasir Hamid on December 7th, 2022
Here are a couple of pictures made with my Graflex Speed Graphic 5×4 camera and Kodak Aero Ektar lens. It’s been a very long time since I last used this set-up so I decided to test it out in Jericho, Oxford. I always envisioned this camera/lens combo for making portraits and was very fortunate to have a friendly couple that were willing to stand very still for me. The camera movements are very limited but I used some front swing to try to bring both faces into focus without stopping the lens down too much (I think I was at f4). The maximum aperture is f2.5 which gives a razor thin depth of field on 5×4 film.
[Tech info:] Graflex Speed Graphic 5×4, Kodak Aero Ektar lens, Fomapan 100 film (expired), developed in HC110 1+63 for 10 mins.

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Tags: 5x4, aero ektar, film, fomapan, hc110, jericho, oxford, speed graphic
Written by Nasir Hamid on December 1st, 2022
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Tags: 28-75, 35mm, b&w, ddx, delta 100, devon, fe2, film, ilford, nikon
Written by Nasir Hamid on October 18th, 2022
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Tags: 30mm, 6x6, black&white, film, fish-eye, kiev 60, matriculation, oxford, people, students
Written by Nasir Hamid on September 17th, 2022
The last few portraits I made at the Oxford Beard Festival 2022. Thank you to everyone that stood very still for me. I’m pleased with how the portraits turned out.
[Tech info:] Sinar P 10×8, Dallmeyer 3A lens, f8 3D printed Waterhouse stop. Fomapan 100 (expired 2017) ISO 50, Kodak HC110 1+63 10mins.

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Tags: 10x8, beard, black&white, dallmeyer, film, fomapan, hc110, oxford, people, portraits, sinar
Written by Nasir Hamid on September 12th, 2022
More portraits from the Oxford Beard Festival 2022. Part 1 is here. I’ve noticed that the depth of field differs in some of my beard festival portraits and thinking about it now I’ve got a feeling it’s because I tilted the camera forward or back depending on the height of the person I was photographing. In hindsight I should have kept the back of the camera vertical and raised the lens or the centre column on the tripod. Something to remember next time.
[Tech info:] Sinar P 10×8, Dallmeyer 3A lens, f8 3D printed Waterhouse stop. Fomapan 100 (expired 2017) ISO 50, Kodak HC110 1+63 10mins.

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Tags: 10x8, black&white, dallmeyer, film, fomapan, hc110, oxford, people, portraits
Written by Nasir Hamid on September 11th, 2022
The first and only time I photographed the Oxford Beard Festival was in 2015 – you can see those pictures here. Ever since then I have been thinking about and this year I finally managed to make it there again. This time I wanted to use a 10×8 large format camera but the slight hiccup being the weight of my kit was far too much for me to carry on my back and the venue for the event was a pub on the river without any access by car. I decided the only way to do it was to transport my kit in a borrowed wheelbarrow and it worked like a charm albeit leaving my arms feeling 3 inches longer by the end of it.
[Tech info:] Sinar P 10×8, Dallmeyer 3A lens, f8 3D printed Waterhouse stop. Fomapan 100 (expired 2017) ISO 50, Kodak HC110 1+31 6mins.


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Tags: 10x8, beard, black&white, dallmeyer, film, fomapan, hc110, oxford, people, portraits, sinar
Written by Nasir Hamid on August 24th, 2022
After being on a bit of a roll with my large format street portraits I decided to take my Speed Graphic out with a lens I’ve been meaning to use for a while – 165mm f2.7 Zeiss Tessar. I repurposed the lens from a folding camera which was well past its best with a perished shutter. Steve at Chroma Camera kindly designed and 3D printed a custom lens board for me. It’s a lot lighter than my Aero Ektar lens but gives a very different look. Depth of field is very shallow as you’d expect – most of these were shot around f4.5.
[Tech info:] Speed Graphic 5×4, 165mm f2.7 Tessar lens, Ilford HP5 (expired), developed in Kodak HC110 1+31 for 6mins.

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Tags: 165mm, 5x4, black&white, film, graflex, hc110, HP5, oxford, people, portraits, speed graphic
Written by Nasir Hamid on August 23rd, 2022
The Intrepid 10×8 is the lightest 10×8 camera I own and after you add the weight of a lens, film holders, tripod, light meter, dark cloth, loupe and rucksack it’s on the limit of what I can comfortably cycle with. Here are the street portraits I made on my first trip into town with this kit. On the first shot I used a little front swing to bring both people into focus – the first time I’ve done this.
[Tech info:] Intrepid 10×8, 300mm f6.3 Komura lens, Fomapan 100 (expired), developed in HC110 1+63 for 10mins.

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Tags: 10x8, 300mm, b&w, film, fomapan, hc110, intrepid, komura, oxford, portrait