We went to the National Media Museum in Bradford today. For me the main attraction was the Fay Godwin exhibition, but we also took in an IMAX 3D film (amazing - I didn't expect to be quite so impressed) and the other bits and bobs, though the mock TV studios were full to bursting with 7 year olds, which meant we didn't get much of a play.

For perfectly good reasons, photography was banned in the Fay Godwin exhibition, but I couldn't resist sneaking this shot, which is of two of her cameras: the Hasselblad is obvious but the other is a Leica M6 with black tape over all identifying marks.

I used the 1600ASA grainy film mode so that not even a lawyer could claim I was breaching copyright in the background. But seeing Fay's prints, made for the original 1985 exhibition at the Serpentine, was a stark reminder of how totally grainless 25ASA film is. It was not that there was noticeably more detail than in a print from a good digital camera, but the picture looked drawn - as if the image was defined by its edges.

I also really enjoyed the fact that they displayed the contact prints and hand-written printing instructions for one image (Flooded Tree, Derwent Water). Fascinating!

P.S. I really ought to find this out for myself, but does anyone know if Fay Godwin is descended from William Godwin and thus related to Mary Shelley, the archetypal feminist intellectual and author of Frankenstein?