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9 December, 2025

Leica M3 – Becoming an Owner in 2025: Romance, Reality, and a Very Shiny Viewfinder

By Tony Page

9 December, 2025

/ Leica M3, leica rangefinder, rangefinder camera, /

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19 December, 2024

5 frames with a Nikon F4S

By Alastair Griffiths

For a ‘Full Frame’ camera it is quite heavy. Certainly big, dwarfing my Ricoh KR10 from 1980. But without doubt it’s absolutely gorgeous. In a way it is almost cheating to call ...

18 December, 2024

Viltrox AF 35mm 1.7 Z DX – A new nifty fifty prime lens for the Nikon DX system

By Mike Brooks

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...

18 December, 2024

Agfa Ambi Silette – First Roll Reflections

By Bob Israel

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

By James P

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

By David Smith

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’)

By Andrea Monti

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

By Hamish Gill

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…

By Ron Duda

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,...

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