Dad was a recent college graduate in 1958. He knew with Vietnam heating up, and with his college days behind him, he would either be drafted into the military and go God knows w...
I have always had a fascination with things that are uncommon or unusual. So the Brumberger 35mm camera fits nicely into both of those themes. Brumberger’s ar...
I took two vacations when I was young. I never recall being disappointed about it, but looking back with a lifetime of experience I realize it was the best my single mothe...
I am always curious to try out various models of Russian cameras. I find myself interested in just how bad a camera can get, and if I can get a decent result out it. When I star...
I’ve written before about the British camera industry. I've done a review of a medium format SLR from a company called 'Aeronautical General Instruments' (AGI). AGI were based i...
Back in 2005 I had just started getting back into shooting Film and had bought a Minolta Dynax 5 to accompany my Konica Minolta 7D DSLR.
What I then wanted was a Leica – almost ...
In January 2022, a friend of mine, who is camera mad, said to me ‘you should get yourself a camera, a film camera, you will love it!’. Then he said, ‘get a look at this on eBay’...
In an unforgivable moment of weakness, I once tried to sell this lovely Yashica Lynx-14 on "the 'Bay.” Don’t know what came over me. I’ve always loved low-light pictures and the...