This coming Sunday/Monday is The Photography Show virtual event, where amongst all of the usual sorts you find at the show, you will find a whole host of interesting analogue st...
Hamish Gill's Posts
15 September, 2020
NEWS: The CAMERADACTYL MONGOOSE Fast Automated 35mm Film Scanner Launches on Kickstarter
Crazy-inventor Ethan Moses or Cameradactly has done something cool. In fact, he has done something that a lot of people in the world of film digitisation have been crying out fo...
14 September, 2020
Pentax 77mm Limited Review – The Joy of a Short Tele Lens
Not so long ago I picked up the Pentax 77mm Limited f/1.8 lens on a bit of a whim. I’d bought the 43mm f/1.9 Limited a few weeks before and was impressed, so when the 77 surface...
7 September, 2020
Rollei Prego 125 Review – Shooting a Should-be-Cheap Camera Expensively
When I look at the Rollei Prego 125, I have a horrible feeling that it might have temporarily ruined autofocus point & shoot cameras for me. It’s pretty much as dull as they com...
31 August, 2020
Pentax SFX Review – 1980s First-Gen AF SLR Joy!
On face value, Pentax SFX is a fairly big and heavy, first generation autofocus SLR film camera with an obscure user interface, some superfluous features and a strong 1980s desi...
As with a lot of my articles, the reason I’m writing this is to solidify an idea in my head. That idea is that I have become a bit of a snob, that I’ve lost touch with something...
17 August, 2020
Skyllaney Zeiss 50mm f/1.5 Single Coated Sonnar Review – Exploring Classic Sonnars pt.12
This Leica thread mount modified Skyllaney Zeiss 50mm f/1.5 single coated Sonnar lens is third I’ve reviewed from the hands of Chris Andreyo from Skyllaney this year. It’s the m...
10 August, 2020
Contax RTS Review – Second Time Lucky
The Contax RTS is a camera I’ve now had two experiences with. In fact, most of the content of this review was written around the time of first contact with one. That earlier ver...