If you grew up in the analogue age, chances are your first 35mm camera came with a fifty millimeter “kit” lens. These “nifty 50s” were reasonably small, reasonably bright, reaso...
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18 December, 2024
Agfa Ambi Silette – First Roll Reflections
During a recent visit to a favorite antique store, I went to my favorite display case which were filled with cameras. One never knows what will be there and so it’s fun to...
17 December, 2024
Canon AE-1 on the Coastline of Montenegro
A road trip through Montenegro is a must. In June I was lucky enough to spend 5 days with my partner enjoying some of the Montenegro coastline equipped with my Canon AE-1. All m...
17 December, 2024
10 Shots from the Toronto Skate Scene
All photographers can ultimately be divided into two categories: the hip or the lame. The former, for example, includes grizzled, chain-smoking photojournalists wearing bullet-r...
16 December, 2024
Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)
What do these pictures have in common (apart from having been taken in various places in Japan)? No, they don’t have the same look and feel, composition or use of light, n...
16 December, 2024
Samyang Remaster Slim – a 3-for-1 Pancake Lens Review
The Samyang Remaster Slim is possibly one of the most unusual lenses I have reviewed on this website – it’s a lens that I was more intrigued by than a great deal of the le...
15 December, 2024
You Never Know What You Might Find…
We are antiquers, my wife and I. Mostly in the fall and winter, and we’ll drive a bit to get to a good one. Late this past winter we took a 90 minute drive to Woodstock,...
15 December, 2024
Three days on a island with a roll of film
One of the memories I have about photography is of family trips with a classic Olympus Trip 35. The camera is long gone, but some photos still remain with tones ranging from the...
