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16 June, 2013

Cleaning the dust out of a Konica Big Mini Lens

By Hamish Gill

I picked up a Konica Big Mini from a charity shop today for the very reasonable price of £5. Pleased! It did have a very unsightly accumulation of dust in the lens, or at l...

9 June, 2013

Nikon ‘Lite Touch’ AF600 Review – A Forgotten Fling

By Hamish Gill

There is a camera out of my recent timeline had skipped my mind. It’s not because it’s a bad camera, it’s just not that great either. It has cons where it has ...

7 June, 2013

Petri Color 35 – Through the Viewfinder

By Hamish Gill

I don’t actually own this camera, but my interest in it is certainly increasing! A chap named Dan K (@ZDP189) on twitter has a top down view of an Minolta 7SII and Olympus...

5 June, 2013

Yashica T5 Review – The Path to Enlightenment

By Hamish Gill

I suppose it is a little odd to write a ‘part 1’ after a ‘part 2’? But that’s just the way it’s happened … The second part of this stor...

31 May, 2013

Fuji Klasse W – Comments on Exposure and Focusing

By Hamish Gill

I have posted my initial impressions of the Fuji Klasse W here, this is a follow up to that. One film in, and I would be lying if I didn’t slight have concerns. Not signif...

27 May, 2013

Real Photographers Forum – A highly biased opinion.

By Hamish Gill

I started RPF in June 2010, in my naivety I think I had aspirations of it being the next DPR. The reality is that I don’t have the time, effort, money, staff, knowledge, s...

26 May, 2013

Japan Camera Hunter – Notes on a positive experience.

By Hamish Gill

As soon as you stumble across the name Bellamy Hunt his name starts to pop up everywhere! I originally discovered him, his website and services after I watched a digital rev vid...

23 May, 2013

Scale/Zone Focusing – A Tutorial

By Hamish Gill

After publishing this, I was asked to write a more detailed version of this post for the Ilford Photo website – you can find it here Scale/Zone focusing is a very simple m...

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