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...
6 April, 2018
Reflecting on some analogue memories – by Rob MacKillop
I gave a review of the Hexar here which was wholly positive, and Hamish gave his more negative thoughts here. Suffice to say I still have the camera. Yes, the menu system (if we...
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...
2 April, 2018
Photographing Punks on Polaroid – by Simon King
I've always thought of myself as an outsider - I think a lot of photographers do. It makes it easier for us to introspect; to look at the world from a perspective a little more ...
29 March, 2018
5 Frames With An Olympus Trip 35 – By Julian Higgs
The Olympus Trip 35 is a much vaunted little camera and has many admirers, me included. I feel like I came to the party late on this one. Having shot film pre-digital (there was...
27 March, 2018
5 Frames with a Rolleicord IIA – by Tom O’Neill
At the beginning of this year I found myself in one of Japan's second hand camera shops. Wherein I fell in love with a Rolleicord II. It seemed as if it was meant to be for I ha...
