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Buying “Crap Cameras” A year ago I started buying plastic zoom compacts from the 80s and 90s to make a series of Youtube videos entitled “Crap Cameras”. ...
26 August, 2025
Inside a Master Luthier’s Workshop
Craftsmanship is fascinating. It’s almost magical how we can see things in our head and make them happen. This is true for every bit of wisdom that humans have come up wit...
This all started as a friendly conversation about looking for a ‘go to’ black & white film choice, partly because I wanted to stock up before the US tariffs kick...
25 August, 2025
Fish-eye-Takumar 17mm – Takumars in a Digital Age #1
Last Christmas my father-in-law gifted an old Spotmatic. I was taken aback as it had belonged to his father and so I knew how much it meant to him to pass it along. While the ca...
25 August, 2025
Minolta XG9 review
There was a point in the late 70s when Minolta did something mildly uncharacteristic. They had always produced interesting cameras with cutting-edge features, but occasionally t...
24 August, 2025
A Lucky Roll – An Accidentally Double-Exposed Roll
If, like me you are shooting film and shooting film at an event, well as you might know, sometimes you make mistakes. I recently bought a camera, a SLR and added a motor drive o...
24 August, 2025
Hanoi’s Beer Street with a Broken Ricoh GR1v
Beer Street, Hanoi. As the name suggests, yes – you can drink beer here. Many beers, in fact, a feat I had evidently achieved this particular evening. Along with inhaling nitrou...
23 August, 2025
Breathing New Life into Old Cameras – The Ausgeknipst Story
If you’re like me and you love shooting film (or at least you love film cameras), you probably know this feeling: you find an old film camera while strolling through your ...
