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25 April, 2025

Contax G1 – A thing of Beauty…

By Bob Janes

25 April, 2025

/ Contax G1, Contax Point & Shoot, Contax Rangefinder, Point & Shoot camera, rangefinder camera, /

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2 October, 2020

Minolta Dynax 5 & Dynax 60 Review – Late Model Budget Gems – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

This is a comparison review of two of Minolta's last film SLRs, separated by only 3 years and aimed, for the most part at the same audience. These were fully featured SLRs with ...

1 October, 2020

Overcoming Creative Block – A Few Tips – By Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

Creative block has been defined as the mind's inability to access its own creativity. So while creative block is a phenomenon of the mind, it is nevertheless real and plagues ma...

30 September, 2020

5 frames with a Nikon F2 on Fujifilm C200 – Phong Nguyen

By Phong Nguyen

I got my Nikon F2 as a gift from a friend of mine who had for a long time been working in Japan - he also took photography as his hobby. Returning to Vietnam he gave up film pho...

30 September, 2020

A 4×5 Portrait with a Toyo 45A, Schneider 210mm f/5.6 & Fuji Acros – By Louis A. Sousa

By LASousa

This is a story of, yes, a spur of the moment 4x5 portrait session from my habitual morning visit to Angelina's Cafe. I have a daily delicious scone baked with care by Chelsea. ...

29 September, 2020

Minolta SRT 101 Review – My Funny Valentine – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

A recent re-associating with the Pentax Spotmatic F had me pondering about some of the other ‘Golden Oldies’ that have been sitting by the skirting board in my liv...

28 September, 2020

My Camera Goes Where I’d Rather Not – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

My mother used to say that when she was young she wished she had learned to smoke cigarettes. Because she always liked the smell of tobacco and it looked sophisticated. But she...

28 September, 2020

The Reveni Labs Light Meter Review – (Small) Size is Everything

By Hamish Gill

I backed the Reveni Labs Light Meter pretty much the moment I saw it had gone live - I had a small advantage as I knew it was happening before, but I was still a little disappoi...

27 September, 2020

Found Photos – Henry N. Mudge – A Suitcase of Negatives, 1916 to 1925 – Christoph Traugott

By Christoph Traugott

While out photoing in the rural Manchester and Glasgow, Scott County, Illinois areas, I stopped into the Winchester Historic Square area, and made a beeline for the Antique stor...

Tony Warren on Contax G1 – A thing of Beauty…
Great article Bob and those lenses are really top drawer. Such clarity and drawing. Not surprised though that the camera…
Scott Ferguson on Calm Down – How Slow Photography Eased My Pre-Match Anfield Anxiety
Hi Ian, Amazing post. I love the mix of very old techniques with repurposed toy components. I recently started shooting…
Gary Smith on Contax G1 – A thing of Beauty…
Great article Bob! I immediately took a look at eBay to check prices and while the G1's seem reasonable, the…

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