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23 June, 2025
Olympus OM707 – The Autofocus Underdog
The Olympus OM707 (OM77 in North America) is one of a slew of new futuristic autofocus SLRs that burst onto the market in the mid-1980s. It’s a great-looking camera with a...
I must be honest, and say I had talked myself out of publishing this post – I just didn’t know how much value it had alongside all of the other noise that was out th...
This little thing is fun. That’s the main takeaway — the key word that came up over and over again on a recent photo walk in my hometown of Adelaide, South Australia. The event ...
21 June, 2025
Stereoscopic Photography with a Rolleiflex
I thought I would wish everyone a very happy International Stereoscopic Day by introducing how to use a Rolleiflex camera to take stereoscopic (3-D) photographs. If you would li...
I confess the company history around the Weston meter leaves me a bit confused. There were lots of mergers and buy-outs over time on both sides of the Atlantic. Sangamo and West...
19 June, 2025
Byzantium – Ancient Constantinople, Modern Istanbul – On Film and Through the eye of my Contax G2
This is a record of a couple of trips I took back in 2007/2008. I brought along my Contax G2, 45mm Planar, 90mm Sonnar and 21mm Biogon plus a load of different films to use. Eve...
18 June, 2025
Fields filled with ruins, cows, trees and boredom
No pretence of art. No photographs of high definition, and certainly not the type of photos to put into your portfolio. No great artistic feelings here, and no “nobody understan...
18 June, 2025
Spam Attack – Fixed, but a quick warning
Just a quick note to some contributors that would have been sent spam comments today… We have just swapped to a new antispam system as I was getting bombarded by spam sign...
