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24 December, 2019

A Fuji X100 and Solution that isn’t a Solution to my Photography Grump

By Hamish Gill

As many of you might already be aware, for the most part, this year I’ve been a right grump about photography. Despite in many ways finding myself opening more doors than I’ve c...

9 December, 2019

7Artisans 75mm f/1.25 Review – a confusion of “want” over “need”

By Hamish Gill

I thought it might be interesting to follow up my post about my “need” for Zeiss ZM lenses in my life with a post about a lens I don’t “need”, but do “want” - at least for the t...

19 November, 2019

Video: Chatting to Ashley Carr in Stourport (part 2)

By Hamish Gill

A couple of months ago I went to Stourport and met up with Ashley Carr. This is part 2 of the video I made, if you’d like to see the first part, you can find it here. If you’ve ...

7 November, 2019

Why Are You Carrying The Camera? – By Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

“Why are you carrying the camera,” asked my colleague the curmudgeon. We were having lunch around the corner from the school. He in fact is much nicer than he pretends to be, an...

4 October, 2019

Rangefinder vs. SLR – Protest Photography – by Simon King

By Simon King

One of my favourite environments to photograph is a protest. Over the last few years I've had plenty of opportunities to document all kinds of demonstrations and protests; peace...

16 September, 2019

Extreme GAS! I don’t need a new camera, I need a new Helicopter!

By Hamish Gill

For Christmas last year, my wife bought me a flight in a helicopter - it was one of those “red-letter day” gifts. I’ve always quite liked the idea of going for a ride in such a ...

26 August, 2019

Video: Chatting to Ashley Carr in a Carpark in Stourport

By Hamish Gill

A little while back I decided I fancied making a few (hopefully) more interesting videos for my YouTube channel. I’ve tried the odd bit of “vlogging”, some of it seems to go dow...

15 July, 2019

No, your Pentax Spotmatic F is not better than my Leica M6! / Don’t be like Frank

By Hamish Gill

I often get accused of writing click bait titles. I’m really not sure what people think the purpose of an article title is if it’s not designed to get people to read it, but non...

Kodachromeguy on Argus C44R – The American Rangefinder
Tony, I often thought many American cameras had no industrial design. The Germans made beautiful Leica, Voigtlander, and Rolleiflex cameras.…
Gary Smith on Pentax Zoom 60 Auto – Thoughts from a 3rd roll
My bid on a Graflex 45 Crown was rejected so it's probably best to sleep on this itch anyway.
Tony Warren on Pentax Zoom 60 Auto – Thoughts from a 3rd roll
Thanks Gary. I have a post pending that might amuse you telling how I finally had to leave LF and…

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