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28 August, 2025
5 Frames with a Praktica L – Nothing more than necessary
I’m all about purity of form and function, and I love a good brutalist design aesthetic. So when I discovered that there was a whole line of cheap and ugly-beautiful SLRs ...
28 August, 2025
Brownie 2A – a final follow up.
Browenie 2A and mask to match 120 film width.
As I imagine many of you already know, in late 2023, Harman released a new colour film, which was the first colour film that they have produced; formerly only making black and w...
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...
