While on vacation in China and Hong Kong this past month, I realized that my poor condition Leica M2 had a malfunctioning shutter - speeds above 1/250 were entirely unusable, an...
I can't remember when or how I came to own my Smena Symbol, mostly because I've got two young kids and can barely remember what I had for dinner yesterday but at a guess I'd say...
It’s 10 years since I bought my first Leica - the M8. As anyone who knows this camera will testify, it’s a strange beast, albeit one which still manages to deliver excellent res...
I spent a long time searching for the perfect compact and after weeks of thinking (and having read Hamish's review a number of times) I ended up with a Minolta TC1.
I had been to a gig at a local music venue at which the bouncer had nearly not let me in because of my little micro four thirds camera. He asked me if it was “professional”, whi...
After my daliences with compact Rangefinder cameras, a very good friend of mine who is also an amateur photographer presented me with a thin strip of brown leather from a certai...
I got into the Leica business last summer by an accident. To be precise, I had some m/39-glass already for my A7, but never had a Leica body because Leica is synonym for expensi...
After nearly 11 years of absence from analogue photography I reentered the scene at around 2014 with a M42 system. However, I find that SLR cameras are too heavy to me and so I ...