I started my photographic journey with a high school course and a borrowed Voigtländer. I purchased my first SLR in 1972 (a Canon FTb) and followed that with a Durst enlarg...
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Living in Japan has been a privilege in many ways – cheap and healthy convenience store meals, decent coffee for a dollar, interesting scenery, and for folks like us ...
21 May, 2024
The Cat and His Boy – A One Shot Story
Michifu is our friend and member of the family. He’s a Tom Cat of about 20 months of age so not fully grown yet. He comes and goes as he pleases, spending a lot of time ou...
I’ve paired this mid-fifties British 35mm camera with a converted lens that is normally fixed onto the front of a Yashica Electro 35 GS rangefinder. Turns out they go toge...
20 May, 2024
Minox CD70 – A Mini-Review on Kentmere 400
Every time I visit a thrift store, I make a bee line for any cameras or lenses in the hope of finding something interesting. While my luck is rarely any good, my most recent tri...
19 May, 2024
Kyoto, farewell
I’ll get to the real reason I took my Sony A7Riii and 85mm lens later, a secondary reason was I had been shooting film for many months, maybe over 50 films, and wanted a ...
18 May, 2024
Looking Back at my First Roll of Film
It was June 2015, the first month of Melbourne’s winter, and I had tired of digital photography. I had bought an entry level Nikon DSLR in January of 2015 as a move up fr...
The Simera 35mm and 28mm F1.4 lenses from Thypoch are coming for Z, X, E, and RF mounts. Thypoch is a relatively new optics manufacturer based in China but their Simera lenses f...
