For nearly a quarter century, I've tested every digital camera that crossed my path to see how well it handled infrared photography. Some didn't pass muster, like my beloved Min...
The idea lay dormant for some years, and emerged again early this year, when daily life slowly became normal again after the pandemic. For various reasons, I got more time to do...
I've just read Sroyon's excellent post about how many cameras to take on holiday and it reminded me of a pre-pandemic trip I made to Greece when I had to make similar decisions ...
For as long as I was shooting film, I have had the same nagging problem: I wanted to shoot in the dark. My Dad - who gave me my first and his only camera Zorkiy with 3.5/50 mm I...
The Hi-Matic E (previously also reviewed by Hamish here) is a Minolta rangefinder with a Rokkor lens. The lens is a 40 mm f/1.7 lens of six elements in four groups. The same spe...
The world spins. Everything comes around. Eventually we start to get misty-eyed about stuff that seems to have only just left the room. Yes, I'm at that point. I’m about to get ...
“I loved owning one for two weeks until every photo came back out of focus.” This was a comment from a popular YouTuber under another popular YouTuber’s review of the Contax G1 ...
It’s a cliché but it’s true: everything changes the moment you become a parent. There’s the stuff they tell you about—the crying, the nappies, the many, many sleepless nights—an...
