It isn’t pretty and, (despite what it says on the front of the camera) it’s not compact either. But the series of cameras known variously as the Konica Wide 28, Off-road W...
9 July, 2026
Jagglé – 1 Year In – Daylight developing
Jagglé started out as a project to create a daylight enlarger: a system that would allow people to print photographs without a darkroom, using a simple setup and without the inv...
6 July, 2026
Light Lens Lab 35mm f1.4 ASPHERICAL Review
Some lenses have always held a special appeal for me: compact wide angles and fast moderate wides. Among them, one lens stands above all others. I can safely say that my favouri...
The best camera is the one with you, and yet most photographers, including myself despise smartphones as photographic tools. There are some good reasons for that, but for me per...
29 June, 2026
Zeiss Ikon Icarex – Roll over Nikon
Voigtländer first came into being in Vienna, Archduchy of Austria in 1756 (270 years ago) before moving permanently to Brunswick in what was then the Duchy of the same name (Bra...
26 June, 2026
Phil Maxwell, the Olympus XA2, and the Street as Theatre
I have known Phil Maxwell for about sixteen years. For a period, we both had studios in Spitalfields, in that strange zone where the East End was still recognisably itself but w...
24 June, 2026
Exploring horizontal camera scanning solutions
I admit I am lazy, and that is precisely why I have been looking for a simple horizontal camera scanning setup. For vertical scanning I would need to assemble a copy stand, conn...
I’ve been a long time user of Japanese Contax cameras, hence I also have a fondness for related West German cameras with the Zeiss Ikon name. I wrote a review of the pretty (if ...
