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24 January, 2015

A Quick Guide to a Rangefinder’s Effective Base Length (EBL)

By Hamish Gill

I recently published my thoughts on the Voigtlander R2a and R3a two great cameras that have one major caveat – their short rangefinder effective base length. I’m now...

21 January, 2015

First roll with the Leica M3

By Hamish Gill

It’s been a very busy couple of weeks since the Leica M3 found its way to me. So much so that I’ve only managed to squeeze a single roll through it so far; I almost...

19 January, 2015

Canonet QL17 GIII Review – Affordable, Fine and Reliable – by Armin Rebihic

By Armin Rebihic

It wasn’t until I was sitting on a train, heading downtown, that a stranger across from me told me how the camera I had on me was great. The Canonet QL17 GIII is a wo...

15 January, 2015

Voigtlander VC Meter II Light Meter Review

By Hamish Gill

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

By Hamish Gill

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

By Hamish Gill

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.

By Hamish Gill

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

By Hamish Gill

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...

Peter Kornaukhov on 5 (random) frames of Bruxelles with a MIR-1B, a Pentax ME Super and a Kodak TMax400
Thank you so much! Tmax 400 is not a simple film. If a good contrast needed... maybe Rodinal strong concentrate…
Dustin Neikirk on Marilyn Monroe in Banff – A Zero Shot Story
Great article! Thank you for writing this and telling your story. I can only imagine how fascinating it would have…
Jeffery Luhn on 5 frames with a borrowed Konica IIIa
Hamish, Very nice images. The colors are vibrant but not unnatural. I'd love to be getting those results. After almost…

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