Dang, this lens is heavy. It seems to pull on the body of the FM3a as if it’s trying to escape using gravity as a weapon and 900g as ammunition. But little does it know that al...
12 April, 2018
5 frames with Pentax SuperA – By Aivaras
Recent news about decline of choices in consumer film market – Agfa Vista discontinuation, triggered me to revisit my own favorite stock of consumer grade film – Fujifilm Superi...
11 April, 2018
5 Frames with a Contax G1 – by Carlos Albisu
There are families and families. Some can be kind of normal, others can be kind of ¨interesting¨. This is the case with my wife's family. For sure they are not extraordinary, bu...
Saturday 24th of March saw the 'Beers and Cameras' photowalk around Birmingham, brought about by our hosts Richard, Robert James, Martin 'Photowalk.Me' Smith and a certain Hamis...
As the official release of the 7Artisans 35mm f/2 looms, I’ve been getting excited about it and have taken to using the prototype I’ve had kicking around for a while. Mechanical...
5 April, 2018
5 Frames with a Kodak Retina IIc – By Howard Dale
This is one of my all time favorite cameras. Approx. 136,000 were made between 1954 - 1957. Kodak acquired German manufacturer Nagel in order to produce a camera that could comp...
4 April, 2018
5 Frames with The Contax RTSii – by Anil Mistry
I've been intrigued by Contax SLRs for a while so I eventually caved and got an RTSii and I'm blown away. It's beautiful. a Porsche designed solid hunk of metal with a luxuriou...
A few years ago my parents got me my first own camera - a Leica Vlux 114. Before that I just shot my pictures with cameras, which I lent from them. Soon after that I bought a Le...
