11 August, 2025
Lucky SHD400 – My Experiences
I started shooting film in 2019. Back then, film was quite affordable (especially by today’s standards). My first B&W roll was the venerable Ilford HP5, and I was amazed at ...
11 August, 2025
Light Lens Lab 50mm f2 rigid review
Light Lens Lab is now a pretty established player in the third party Leica lens manufacturer, specialized in the “replica” genre. They successfully released beautifu...
10 August, 2025
Harman Phoenix 200 (first gen) – Well Underexposed
The moment I received the scans from my first roll of Harman Phoenix 200, the older version with the orange packaging, I knew something was off. Every frame was underexposed by ...
10 August, 2025
Nikkor 43-86mm – The world’s WORST lens!
I’m a heretic. It’s true. I’m not a big fan of sharp lenses with tons of contrast. I’ve also got a thing against Subaru’s. No real reason, just don’t like them...
Over the past few years, I’ve become enamored with late 60s/early 70s rangefinder cameras. Not the Leicas, mind you — budget won’t allow — but I have found great joy in shootin...
6 August, 2025
Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6 – Adapting a digital medium format lens to film
A few years ago the managers of the university I work for decided that the Creative Arts department, which taught a number of photography subjects, was insufficiently profitable...
One of my daily routines includes a search in the local classifieds for cameras. Initially fueled by my obsession with finding “that perfect camera” and later to fin...
2 August, 2025
Photographers in fiction
I’ve just finished reading Tatjana Soli’s amazing novel The Lotus Eaters which tells the story of a female press photographer documenting the Vietnam war. As so often, I’m somet...
