About three years ago, I bought a pre-owned Leica M7 in excellent shape offered at a great price. I had intended to use the M7 only for a two or three months while my Leica M3, ...
30 January, 2019
Kodak Autographic Brownie 2A with 120 film - By Lori Brooks
As seems to happen with many people who do the same, I started to acquire lots of random cameras, gear and experimenting with different film formats and film. I also recently 'g...
28 January, 2019
Cosina CX-2 Review – an ingenious bit of industrial design
I’ve been intrigued by the Cosina CX-2 on and off for a while. It was supposedly the inspiration for the Lomo LC-A, a camera that I like a lot, but sometimes feel a little bit d...
For the longest time I coveted a 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor AIS. This yearning began in art school, where photography was the family member that drank too much at Thanksgiving and was co...
23 January, 2019
Balda Baldessa 1b – a mini-review – By Cameradactyl (Ethan)
I love cameras, big and small. I build a bunch of pretty large ones at cameradactyl.com. But when I go out lugging a 4x5 or 8x10 I also like to take along a tiny camera in my ba...
I have something of a fascination with with "Soviet" cameras. I have a couple of Feds, A couple of Lubitels, My Zorki 4k that I've written about here and way more Zenits than an...
Like all good stories, this one begins under the cloak of darkness... Having been photographing friends, mostly in nightclubs and gig venues with 35mm compacts (and the odd rang...
The Leica Standard, or Model E as it’s also known, was brought to market by Leitz in 1932, and with minor tweaks to its design, its production continued into the late 1940s. As ...
