Until a few weeks ago I hadn’t held a Barnack Leica for a good few years, so long in fact that whilst I knew the name “Leica” when I did hold one, I had no rea...
Hamish Gill's Posts
Firstly, this camera isn’t strictly speaking called a “Prima 120” it’s a “Prima Super 120” or a “Sureshot Classic 120” or an R...
A 6 o’clock start isn’t really my cup of tea if I’m honest, especially when it’s going to be 11 hours until we reach the hotel we are staying at just out...
The DX barcode on a 35mm roll of film is there, in part, to tell the camera it’s put into what ISO the film is. The majority of cameras from the mid 80’s onwards rea...
16 February, 2014
Ricoh GR1v Review – My Final thoughts
If you have read the previous post about the Ricoh GR1 series of cameras, you might be under the impression that I had fallen out with the Ricoh GR1v? Well, this isn’...
9 February, 2014
Ricoh GR1 – A tale of repair and repeated woe
In my previous Ricoh GR1 post, I was at a point in my relationship with it where we had just recently gone our separate ways. Nearly a year on, and a lot has happened ...
4 February, 2014
Fuji Klasse W Review – My final thoughts
It feels like a long time since I started my Fuji Klasse W review, yet it’s not even a year! I suppose it has been quite an eventful time for me and my photography since I...
The fuji zoom date 2.8 or Silvi or whatever you want to call it, has always seemed a bit of an enigma to me. They tend to go for close to £100, sometimes more, but really a...