18 November, 2024
Pentax 67II – The Perfect Travel Camera
As a amateur photographer forced against your will to work in some non-camera based occupation, your holidays (vacations, for my friends across the pond) are one of the few occa...
23 January, 2024
Bronica ETRSi and 135W – First Whole Roll Experiences
I have recently been experimenting with film again and, using a normal 35mm camera, and decided that I wanted to try something with panoramic format. There is an obvious choice,...
7 April, 2023
Pentax 67 – Successfully Use With Wide Lenses
I first became interested in the Pentax 6x7 system when I saw one in a camera shop window in 1976. I thought that the camera looked like a giant 35mm SLR, and in a sense, that's...
23 September, 2022
Hasselblad H1 – An Accidental Journey into Phase One P Series Digital Backs – By Bill Thoo
I bought a Hasselblad H1 by accident. Like it’s older cousin, the Hasselblad V, the H series is modular. It has options for batteries, viewfinders, and camera backs, in addition...
The essence is this: I find myself with two 6×6 SLR systems from the 1970s. One of them was a staple of professional photography for half a century. The other was a rival t...
It was the camera that got me into medium format film photography, and for better or worse, the one that I love, and the one that frustrates me the most. A Soviet tank of a came...
The Bronica S2A is a hefty 6x6 focal plane medium format SLR that was produced in Tokyo from 1969-1977. It was the last fully mechanical 6x6 SLR among Bronica's Z/D, C, and S se...
A lot of photographers have the opinion that an investment in new equipment will solve their photographic problems and let them make better photos. In most cases this is an illu...