It is hard to resist interesting old cameras, especially if they are low cost. Before a 2017 trip to Nepal, I had been looking for a compact 35mm fixed lens camera. I knew I wou...
I was a frustrated teenage photographer, unable to afford the cameras that I saw in the window of Jessops in Belfast and in the pages of Amateur Photographer that I browsed – an...
This is one of my favourite little 35mm rangefinders, the Voigtländer Vitomatic II. This is such a great little camera, it is simple to use and very compact; making it perfect t...
The 1980s Hollywood stars Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger are the unlikely match to play twin brothers in the aptly named 1988 film, Twins (stick with me on this one). As...
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.― Benjamin Franklin
A clever chap was Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. He knew a thing or two about preparation. I, on the ot...
I’m an old-ish guy, so when I think of photography I think of film. My interest in photography has ebbed and flowed over the years, and really took a nosedive with the arrival o...
Now that's over 40 years ago, so marvel I do at my Ricoh 500GX, complete with pristine case and plastic lens cap, which looks like it has just left the production line in Taiwan...
I picked up my Ricoh 500G rangefinder for $8 at a ‘Vinnies’ charity shop here in Sydney. Manufactured from 1972, I’ve had this for about a year now. It was my first film camera ...
