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Leica IIIa with Voigtländer Heliar 40mm f2.8

13 February, 2026

Leica IIIa – Buying a Barnack Leica and enjoying it visiting Castles in the Loire Valley

By PASCAL

I must admit, I am a bit of a collector. Some time ago, I had a 1976 Triumph Spitfire and a 1991 Mini Cooper. I sold the two because I did not have enough opportunity to drive t...

11 February, 2026

Leica Lens List – The One-Stop Place for Leica rangefinder shooters

By LeicaLensList

One year ago, in October 2024 I was looking for Leica M lenses for the Leica M2 I bought earlier in the year. A lot of the information was scattered and I had to visit many webs...

10 February, 2026

Attaching accessories to TLRs

By Adrian Riu

This post may be useful for newcomers to twin-lens reflex (TLR) cameras who wish to extend the capabilities of their classic machines. It describes some TLR accessories that I f...

9 February, 2026

Camp Snap Camera – A Simple and Fun Everyday Carry

By Joy Celine Asto

With the enduring popularity of compact cameras — both film and digital — there’s never a better time to get one (or a few) of these pocketable photo companions. We’re now so sp...

7 February, 2026

Preserving your Photographs – My journey through Self-Publishing ‘BLACK and LIGHT’ books

By Tony Roman

I am a long-time photo enthusiast, and I have amassed a lifetime of 35mm black and white photos. These 250,000 photos are stored on my computer and Cloud services. It recently o...

6 February, 2026

Zeiss ZM Biogon 35/2 and Nikon Z5 – An Empirical Field Test

By Andrea Monti

This is an empirical field test of the Zeiss ZM T* 35/2 Biogon lens in M-mount on a Nikon Z5 through an adapter crafted by master Adriano Lolli. As with all my technical tests,...

4 February, 2026

Viltrox 56mm 1.2 Pro APS-C Lens Review

By Hamish Gill

Since I started reviewing these Viltrox lenses in the latter part of last year, I have been more than intrigued to try one that has “Pro” in the nomenclature of the lens. So whe...

26 January, 2026

Lomography MC-A Review – The Camera is about Equal too!

By Hamish Gill

The end of last year was a particularly busy time for me… most times of most years seem to be, but the end of last year really hit hard. It seemed only a few days between me wri...

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Nick Orloff on Breathing New Life into Old Cameras – The Ausgeknipst Story
A great post, and I've ordered a few things for my Rollei and a battery converter for my Spotmatic as…
Hamish Gill on Leica Monochrom (M9M) review – for the love of black and white
Yes they do work. With your setup, do you have the camera set to auto white balance - I wonder…
Hamish Gill on Zorki 4K Review – Following the Wisdom of Tolstoy
Yeah, just to back up the author’s response here, FSU is definitely a standard way of referring to these cameras.…

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