14 August, 2024
5 Frames in Old San Juan On a Mamiya 6 with Fujichrome
Since getting back into film, photography has become a focal point of my travels, even when it’s simply to document the mundane. Unlike the bottomless nature of digital p...
16 November, 2023
5 Frames through the Mamiya 6 with Kentmere Pan 400
For the last 5 months, I’ve been drilling street photography with a 35mm camera. The camera body bouncing up and down on my hip bone felt rhythmic and natural. Drawing th...
12 September, 2023
5 Frames with the Auto Close-up Lens for the Mamiya 6: ‘Baroque’ and superfluous or compact and handy?
In researching the Mamiya 6MF camera prior to buying one a little over 20 years ago, I read a review which included mention of the Auto Close-up Lens attachment for the Mamiya&#...
What’s a more portable way to do a trip and still shoot medium format? A folder camera of course!
Back in October 2019, I needed to go to Milan with some friends for a conferen...
In 1996 I purchased a Mamiya 6MF rangefinder with the 50, 75 and 150 lenses to replace an Olympus OM1/OM2 35mm system. The Olympus cameras and lenses were, of course, compact ...
I acquired my Mamiya 6 MF and all three lenses just under 20 years ago, after deciding against a long-held aspiration of getting a Hasselblad. A decision I haven’t regretted. Th...
4 February, 2020
Finding Subjects in Familiar Sights – by Chris Illing
It’s December the 23. 2018. Midnight. I’m standing in the bathroom of my parents house brushing my teeth. It felt like nothing had changed since my childhood. Everything as usua...
I have over the past five years developed either passion or an obsession for instant films, depending on who you should choose to ask. Growing up just on the cusp of the digital...