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22 September, 2025
Omnar Bertele 50mm f/2 MC FLB Review
Recent years have seen the rise of numerous new lens manufacturers offering alternatives for Leica M users. Most of these new makers focus on fast, sharp, modern lenses, often b...
21 September, 2025
Personal Musing On Monochrome Digital Cameras
I was thinking of exploring the world of black-and-white digital photography so I started looking into the available options. Currently, only the Leica Monochrom and the Pentax ...
20 September, 2025
5 Frames of Ilford HP5 on the Streets of Belfast with a Minolta Maxxum 5
Belfast has been like a second home to me now for the better part of 20 years. I fell in love with the city and its people the first time I visited Belfast as an undergraduate i...
20 September, 2025
Underground 3: retakes on HP5+
The aim was noble I think. To retake underground 1 and 2 shots on film. I would necessarily need to expose either slow film using a tripod (anathema to me, and permission would ...
19 September, 2025
Gravity on Pause – A One Shot Story
This a casual shot taken while I was wandering around without actually thinking about taking photographs. Setting aside the photographic quality of the image for a moment, I was...
19 September, 2025
Viltrox AF 14mm f/4.0 Air – Drama on a budget with the new full frame, autofocus lens
I got pretty excited when Viltrox agreed to send me a copy of their new, full frame 14mm auto focus lens, the Viltrox AF 14mm f/4.0 Air. As you might be able to tell from the na...
18 September, 2025
Nicéphores window – A One Shot Story
Nadja and me we stopped in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes while travelling through France in the summer of 2022. Nicéphore Niépce experimented here with heliography. 200 years ago he us...
