I was a frustrated teenage photographer, unable to afford the cameras that I saw in the window of Jessops in Belfast and in the pages of Amateur Photographer that I browsed – an...
The Leica MP is touted as "the ultimate tool". Admittedly, my perspective might be influenced by the contrarian in me, but I’ve long been quite sceptical - it's the most expensi...
This is one of my favourite little 35mm rangefinders, the Voigtländer Vitomatic II. This is such a great little camera, it is simple to use and very compact; making it perfect t...
It is probably easiest if I just come out and say it like this: The XPAN will forever hold a special place in my heart.
It's been two years since I've owned it, and roughly 200...
The 1980s Hollywood stars Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger are the unlikely match to play twin brothers in the aptly named 1988 film, Twins (stick with me on this one). As...
I recall as a 16-year old and having taken up photography about a year earlier, seeing in the photographic press the arrival of the Canon 7 with a lens of the simply unheard of ...
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.― Benjamin Franklin
A clever chap was Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. He knew a thing or two about preparation. I, on the ot...
Since childhood, this little Leica IIIC was a member of the household. My dad bought it in 1949 when he worked for the US Navy on Guam. It came with a 5cm f/2.0 Summitar lens. H...