In 2015 when I decided I wanted to give film photography a try, it was the Leica M3 rangefinder that intrigued me the most. However, at the time I did not feel I was ready to pl...
21 December, 2018
Canon QL17 Giii review – Discovering cameras I’d Missed Along the Way – Part 1 – By Steve Ember
Over the past few years, I’ve been enjoying rediscovering a type of camera that I’d somehow “leapfrogged” past in my youthful headlong rush to transition from more basic equipme...
14 December, 2018
Yashica Lynx-14 Review – Great 45mm lens (good camera stuck to the back) – By Andy Larner
OK, so full disclosure, I went looking for a rangerfinder thinking I would buy something small, light and discreet as a daily carry that I could slip in my pocket. Something lik...
26 November, 2018
Minolta – Four 35mm, 1960’s Compacts – by Tobias Eriksson
I have a crush on these compact Minolta cameras manufactured in the 1960s. If one only looked at the price tag of these models they could be just crap. But actually they are com...
12 November, 2018
Leica M6J review – The M6 meets the M3 – By Steven Bleistein
The Leica M6J is a limited edition pre-M6 TTL released in 1994 to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the introduction of the Leica M3 in 1954. Leica produced 1640 of them, ...
28 October, 2018
Canon P (for Populaire) thread mount rangefinder mini-review
The Canon P - or "Populaire", as the P stands for - is a Leica thread mount rangefinder camera released the late 1950’s. There were a lot of these cameras sold, something like 1...
7 October, 2018
Leica MP (Another) Review – by Adam Laws
Let’s get this out of the way straight away - It’s hard to recommend the Leica MP in what might seem a rational way. It’s an emotive choice compared to it's analogue M-system co...
My name is Markus. I come from a small town in the south of Germany and from my early twenties, I have been seriously into photography. I shoot mostly people, mostly nudes, and ...