I’ve feel like I’ve been away from photography for a while. Like most of people these days, the general state of the universe has got me down. Don’t get me wro...
I ran into this camera almost by accident. I was meandering through a vinyl record and camera store* and saw the small Rollei XF 35 hiding in a glass counter next to the registe...
At the current stage of my photographic journey, I enjoy normal prime lenses. When I go on trips, whether it’s with my Nikon F2 or my Canon P, I often find that the 28 or...
When the Zeiss Ikon SW showed up on my doorstep a couple of weeks ago I was already well versed in “blind” M or LTM mount cameras. The “blind” term r...
Many years ago, a neighbour offered me a camera he had acquired “from a mate” for £10. I had never seen a Balda or even heard of one but it looked interesting a...
On my journey trying out many different film cameras I went through a Leica M phase, spending time with an M4-P, M3, M2 and M7. When using the M3 which was only a year younger t...
A few years ago my cousin passed her father’s Retina IIc on to me including a lens hood, a couple of filters and a 1958 copy of The Retina Way by O. R. Croy. This informa...
Born from a collaboration between Leitz and Minolta, the Leica CL was introduced in 1973 as a premium compact rangefinder camera with a 40mm Summicron lens as well as a 90mm f4,...