5 February, 2025
Pentax Zoom 60 Auto – Thoughts from a 3rd roll
Automation of cameras. Pentax Zoom 60 and Fujifilm 200 film.
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15 January, 2015
Voigtlander VC Meter II Light Meter Review
I’ve decided I should review some of the collection of compact camera and rangefinder accessories I seem to have been collecting recently. I was trying to decide where to ...
14 January, 2015
MR-9 Battery Adapter
I have previously written about adapting a 675 hearing aid battery for use in cameras that require a 1.35 volt PX625. I was pretty confident at the time that since hearing aid b...
10 January, 2015
Low light fun with Ilford HP5+ at ei3200 and Ilfotec DD-X
These days I rarely find the need to shoot with with film much faster than 400 iso, but a few years back I used to shoot a lot more faster film. I suspect back then – sinc...
8 January, 2015
Olympus AF-10 Super Review, or: Pushing the functional limits of a crap point & shoot.
There isn’t a great deal to say about the Olympus AF-10 Super. It’s about as basic a camera as they come. Yet as I’ve expressed in a previous post, there is so...
5 January, 2015
Adjusting a Leica M3 to focus closer than 1 metre
I bought an Leica M3 on ebay over Christmas. To be honest, when I came around from the excitement and realised that I had bought a Leica M3 on ebay, I did worry a little bit. My...
31 December, 2014
Christmas in colour – A few shots with the Voigtlander 50mm f/1.1
Since I banged on at some length about how I would likely only ever use my Voigtlander 50mm 1.1 for its function, ie in low light, I thought I would contradict myself and shoot ...
30 December, 2014
Pentax Espio Mini (UC-1)
The Pentax Espio Mini (or UC-1 as it is otherwise known) doesn’t seem to demand quite the outspoken praise that some of its contemporaries do. There isn’t much info ...
29 December, 2014
Voigtlander R2A & R3A Review
I’ve mentioned numerous times on this blog that I’ve previously owned and extensively shot with a Voigtlander R2A, a camera that I had previously kept when I sold my...
