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3 November, 2026
The Final 5 Frames with My Leica Digilux 2
After several years of faithful service, my beautiful Leica Digilux 2 finally succumbed to the inevitable death of its sensor. The failure of the now infamous Sony ICX282AQ2 2/3...
3 November, 2026
A Peak in a Colorless Sky – My photo of the year 2026
In August I set out on a drive around Oregon with the Contax G1 loaded with color film. I decided that this shot worked best for me in black and white due to the way the clouds ...
3 November, 2026
Canon EOS 650 – the cheap the good and the Phoenix
The title is probably confusing enough to prompt an explanation here in the first few lines. I bought a Canon EOS 650. Why? Because it was cheap, that’s probably the first...
2 November, 2026
A Journey into the Past
Early October, autumn in Germany. Sunny, dry weather with mild temperatures. I got into my car and drove to two places, each 20 km away from where I live. Both places are in the...
2 November, 2026
Minolta Dynax 7xi review – Everything turned up to ‘xi’
The Minolta Dynax 7xi (also known as Alpha or Maxxum 7xi) was released in 1991 as a replacement for the Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 7000i which had been Minolta’s ‘enthusiast...
1 November, 2026
Your photo of the year 2026 (and my photo of the year 2026)
David Pauley has cornered me into this ‘photo of the year’ lark again by sharing his ‘Take two‘ and suggesting that we go for a repeat of last year…...
1 November, 2026
A Graceful Exit – My Favorite Photo of 2026
Poor Hamish. I had another image all lined up and written about for my 2026 Favorite Photo of the Year, a black-and-white photograph of a celebrated boys’ choir processing in so...
1 November, 2026
The Finished City
Central London very often looks as if someone had already taken the photograph. It is, in fact, a part of town endlessly photographed on phones, instant cameras, old and new “di...
