My name is Christian Schroeder and I live in Hannover, Germany. I can divide my photography into two modi operandi. On the one hand, I like a slow and thoughtful approach. That ...
19 May, 2019
The Kit Before the Horse – By David Allen
We used to live on one of the oldest streets in the dead-center of Toulouse, a city in southwest France. In case you were unaware, the coffee in France generally sucks. Seriousl...
There’s an odd misconception about the use of Leica cameras that I often get challenged with - especially on social media. As someone who frequently uses 3rd-party lenses on my ...
7 February, 2019
A Quartz Date Dilemma – By Taylor Ervin
Photographs freeze time. They capture the light reflected from objects that happen to occupy a particular space and time, and for me, those objects are often my friends. I know ...
5 February, 2019
An Experience Thrift Hunting in my Hometown – By Gavin Bain
In November 2018 my wife, our daughter and I took a trip back to my hometown in Sydney, Australia for my brothers wedding. I took a fair few rolls of film and my Zorki 4 sportin...
4 February, 2019
Practice [and not a New Camera] Makes Perfect!
There’s a lot to be said for practice when it comes to manual focusing cameras. Unfortunately, it’s fair to say that practice is something that I’m completely out of when it com...
For the longest time I coveted a 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor AIS. This yearning began in art school, where photography was the family member that drank too much at Thanksgiving and was co...
16 September, 2018
Sharpness? A creative goal, but still not a prerequisite for a good photo, or: why I’m enjoying my Makina 67
I recently wrote a post about sharpness being overrated where I ended up alluding to the question (somewhat rhetorically) of why we as photographers obsess to the degree we do o...
