Those of you who follow my ramblings will be aware that I’ve recently been through a little bit of a phase of shooting Pentax SLRs. The thing I’m beginning to love about them is...
25 February, 2020
That time I shot a Noritar 80mm f/2 medium format lens on a Pentax 35mm film camera – By Aivaras
For a long time, I was looking into 6x6 medium format cameras with a really fast standard focal length lens (around 80mm). Such lenses are rare, as far as I know there are two o...
13 February, 2020
How I Shot A Micro-Budget Feature Film for less than £4000 with Vintage Lenses and a Sony A7s – By Brenden Singh
Why make a micro-budget feature film? Well, I had the idea since I was 14 years old. I had a lot of free time at that age, having been kicked out of Secondary School and not bei...
The following endeavour was something that I thought had been tried by others, but it turns out that I think it might be something new. I recently wondered, why not adapt the Ch...
I have been an amateur photographer since I was 13 years old (in 1982) when my first camera was a now long-since-bricked Yashica Electro 35 GX. As dead as it was though, my path...
The Kodak Instamatic 500 might look like a common Instamatic camera. Boxy, thick, pocketable and simple, quickly loaded with a 126-film cassette. But once you take a closer look...
'Sharp lenses' and 'cheap lenses' is a Venn diagram with a very small intersection. In search of such a short-telephoto lens for equestrian photography, I started looking at the...
5 July, 2019
That time I shot freelensing with a Camedia D-435 and an Olympus OM 50mm – by Charles Higham
At the bottom of John Scott's fun gaffa tape pinhole lens post is Hamish's invitation for contributors to a new series entitled "That time I shot with a...". Essentially, any so...