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18 January, 2018

5 Frames with a 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1 – Barnaby Nutt

By Barnaby Nutt

A while back, I wrote a bit about my new 7Artisans, 50mm lens that I'd bought from Hamish and paired with my M6. That first trip out with it involved a wander around Oxford and ...

17 January, 2018

5 (4 underexposed) frames with a Leica M-A and 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1

By Hamish Gill

Ok, I'm cheating, this isn't 5 frames it's 4. But I only took 4, and they make a nice set... These were taken last summer in a bar in Waterloo at a Beers & Cameras meetup with m...

16 January, 2018

5 Frames with a 135 adapted Holga – By Lucas H

By Lucas H

I honestly don’t remember when or where I first came across the 35mm Holga adapter. The lime-green spacers had been 3D printed by a friend months previous, quickly relegated to ...

11 January, 2018

5 Frames with a Pentax Spotmatic and Kominar 28mm/3.5 – By Toni Skokovic

By Toni Skokovic

Sometimes we get pockets of time, and these create adventures, discoveries. On a recent trip to North Carolina, decided to take a detour to a local camera store and see what the...

10 January, 2018

5 Frames with a Leica Standard & Voigtlander 28mm f/3.5

By Hamish Gill

This Leica is the camera in my collection that seems to raise the most eyebrows. I’m going to write about using it properly sometime, but briefly, the questions I get aske...

9 January, 2018

5 Frames with a Leica CL and Jupiter-8 – By Simon King

By Simon King

I’ve gone through a handful or so of Leica CL cameras, which is more than I expected to when I first started photography. Film was never my area, so when I bought my first...

4 January, 2018

5 Frames with a Nikon FM3A and Nikkor 50mm f1.2 AIS – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

It was a week before Christmas back in 2006- I'd had a few pints and was in a panic to buy my wife a Christmas present- something that wasn't perfume for once. I then remembered...

3 January, 2018

5 Frames with a Leica M typ 262

By Hamish Gill

I’ve only had this camera for around a week, and haven’t formed any particularly strong opinions about it yet – but did think a 5 Frames post would give me a...

Reed George on 5+1 frames with a Nikon F100 & Nikkor 50mm f/1.8g
Hi Zoltan, Thanks for this post. If I were to go out on a similar walk, I would think to…
Christian on Finding the Best 126 Cartridge Camera – Part I
Interesting insights into the world of these cameras. My dad has a lot of these cheap instamatics laying around, and…
Keith Drysdale on Finding the Best 126 Cartridge Camera – Part I
I think the Kodak Instamatic, with the self contained 126 cartridges, is the camera that made people realise that every…

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