Scarred by years of waiting for scanners to finish scanning and repairing dust and scratches with Photoshop’s cloning tool, I have enthusiastically turned my nose up at film-based photography for at least twenty years.

But my recent mission to digitise my analogue back-catalogue has reminded me there are positives in the ways we used to do things. So, a few months ago I spent £110 on a Minox 35 ML — an amazing little camera I’ve lusted after since my teens— scored a load of Kodak Tri-X and rediscovered the dark magic (and unmistakeable smell) of a 35mm developing tank. Here are some of the results.