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22 January, 2016

My First Roll With a Leica Film Camera – Guest Post by Aukje

By Aukje

My first year of shooting film Part 4 My fourth post on this website (read Part 3 here), my third film camera… I guess I can be a bit impatient. I started my adventur...

1 January, 2016

The Gear Acquisition Syndrome Horseshoe

By Hamish Gill

Just a bit of fun. I’ve been thinking about Gear Acquisition Syndrome and what it means to me. I thought about writing a post about it but decided instead it could be bett...

10 December, 2015

Kodak Tri-X – Finding my Photo Mojo in Forty Rolls – by Ryan Neilan

By Ryan Neilan

Until recently it was nearly ten years since I had shot a roll of film...

21 November, 2015

Leica M-A – From Digital, Back to Film (part 2) – by Anthony Killeen

By Anthony Killeen

It’s been a couple of months since I obtained my Leica M-A film camera and wrote about my initial experience with returning to film after many years of using digital came...

7 November, 2015

My First Film Camera Continued – by Aukje

By Aukje

My first year of shooting film Part 2 A month ago I wrote a guest post about my first steps in film photography. I got some very useful feedback, and encouragement to proceed. T...

7 October, 2015

My First Film Camera – by Aukje

By Aukje

My first year of shooting film – Part 1 A year ago, I became a photographer. Well of course that depends on your definition, I am not a professional, nor do I intent to be...

29 July, 2015

Light Meters – by Marco North

By Marco North

Hamish is an obsessive man, and that’s why we get along. I have never met him, but we send each other massages at odd hours about lenses, about the gospel of the rangefin...

2 July, 2015

Leica M Edition 60 (Leica M60) Review – the Deconstruction of the Digital Camera

By Hamish Gill

The Leica M Edition 60 – or Leica M60 as it’s more commonly know – is seemingly one of most enigmatic cameras Leica have built, certainly digital cameras....

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