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25 December, 2017

5 Frames with a Canon F1 with a 55mm f/1.2 – James Greenoff

By James Greenoff-Cairns

My Canon F1 came to me just after I’d committed to no more cameras. I have about six or seven good cameras working in a rotation and for the most part I’m an SLR shooter, (I hav...

24 December, 2017

Nikon F75 Project – Part 3 – Kodak Portra 800 & Two competing brains at the Christmas Fayre

By Hamish Gill

I talked around the way I think differently with different cameras in my hands in my post about the Lure of the Uncomplicated camera. How the Nikon F75 impacted on my thought pr...

21 December, 2017

Nikon F75 Project – Part 2 – revelling in the 50mm point & shoot experience

By Hamish Gill

The one feature I’ve always desired from a compact camera is a 50mm lens. I would estimate that around 75% of my photography is shot with a normal focal length. This is actually...

21 December, 2017

5 frames with a Ferrania Condor II – Francesco Melis

By Francesco Melis

The 1952 Ferrania Condor II rangefinder camera, alongside with some famous and well sought-after postwar productions, is normally considered a Leica copy, although it shows many...

19 December, 2017

5 frames with a Pentax Espio 35-70 AF Zoom – By James Cockroft

By James Cockroft

Pentax made loads of Espio cameras. You can find different versions all over. The 35-70 AF Zoom is one of the bigger, clunkier ones, and it does all kinds of things, like double...

17 December, 2017

7Artisans 50mm f1.1 – The Everyman’s Noctilux? – Guest Review by Mehrdad Abedi

By Mehrdad Abedi

When I first looked at the 7Artisans 5mm f/1.1 specs I asked myself if this could be a kind of 'everyman’s Noctilux'. But hand in hand with this question comes the scepticism. I...

17 December, 2017

Nikon F75 Project – Part 1 – Going off on a tangent from my usual direction of travel

By Hamish Gill

I’ve started a little project shooting a Nikon F75. I’m calling it a project, as I want to differentiate it a little from my normal trials with cameras. My intention isn’t to sh...

16 December, 2017

Leica M2 – Overlooked lesser sibling or minimalist, ‘gold-standard’ talisman of classic Leicadom for wide angle? – By Chroma

By chromacomaphoto

Now then, down to brass (Leica) tacks…(and yes, I am including favourite shots taken by myself in Bangkok with a Leica M2 throughout this post).In reading this article, it is as...

francois karm on Leica M7 review – a near perfect camera (at least for my personal requirements)
M7 is so perfect ( 8 own more than 25 M, nearly all of them , multiple time) that M8,…
RichardH on 5 Frames in Stuttgart with a Canon Serenar 50mm f/1.8 and Kodak 5222 Double-X
Thanks, Tony. The Serenar lens is an affordable choice for M39 screw mount cameras. I see some family resemblance among…
RichardH on 5 Frames in Stuttgart with a Canon Serenar 50mm f/1.8 and Kodak 5222 Double-X
Thank you, Jeffery. The contrast is from the Double-X film and the coated Canon lens. These images are straight from…

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