Earlier this year, while I was visiting San Francisco, my photographer friend Arachide presented me with a bulky yet interesting looking compact camera – A Minolta Explore...
22 November, 2015
Zeiss 50mm 1.5 ZM C Sonnar Review
It took me so long to commit to the idea of buying a Zeiss ZM 50mm Sonnar. I must have hanged my mouse over a buy-it-now button of some sort countless times. Something just kept...
12 November, 2015
Canon 50mm f0.95 Review – by James Fox-Davies
I own a couple of interesting cameras and lenses, but there is one that I use 95% of the time, the Canon 50mm f0.95 ‘dream lens’. As you might have recently rea...
Look at that, my second review for this site: the Minolta Hi-Matic AF2. It is not the most compact of compacts, and it’s a bit off an odd beast, having autofocus but manua...
15 October, 2015
Leica M5 Review – The Odd One Out
The Leica M5 is the odd one out in the Leica M family line. It’s the camera that nearly put an end to the Leica rangefinder after it was balked at by Leica users of its da...
6 October, 2015
Leica M-A – From digital, back to film – by Anthony Killeen
The Leica M-A is a fully mechanical rangefinder camera that is the latest in the long line of Leica M film cameras. Leica manufactures three film M cameras today, the M7, t...
2 October, 2015
Minolta Riva Mini Review – by Torsten Kathke
If you ask me, on any given day, “what’s in your jacket pocket?” the answer is likely to be “that’s none of your business.” Then again, if we...
21 September, 2015
Nikon 35Ti review – by Marc-Olivier Gilbert
If you asked me 6 months ago, I never thought I would want a compact camera. But that was 6 months ago, and now I have a Nikon 35ti.
