The Industar-69 (Индуста́р-69) is a strange but beguiling beast. Originally designed for the Chaika (Чайка) camera, it wasn't really meant to be used with other cameras. The ori...
The Reveni Labs spot meter is a little bit different from anything else I’m aware of that offers true spot metering. It’s smaller, lighter and has a fairly impressive range of f...
I love the look that the images shot with a large format camera give you. My old wooden Tachihara camera had lots of adjustments, leaky bellows and needed to be shot on a tripod...
For a long time, the only digital rangefinders on the market were Leicas. Now there’s Pixii. A screen-less, APS-C sensor, “connected” rangefinder that’s quite a lot less cash th...
Look at virtually any of the online guides recommending the best SLRs for newcomers to film photography and a shortlist soon becomes familiar: Pentax K1000, Canon AE-1, Olympus ...
I’ve had some fun since reviving my silver-based photography in 2018. But I’ve become quite disillusioned with it in the latter phases of the Covid apocalypse. In particular, ...
In a way, this Canonet review has been 43 years in preparation. I was a teenager when I got into photography. I used to borrow my father’s various rangefinder cameras: fixed len...
This article is mainly a review of an unusual lens - Minolta AF Reflex 500 – one of the few Autofocusing Catadioptric lenses to be made. I also have a Korean-made manual focus ‘...
