I've gone off Leica glass - the newer stuff at least. I touched on this in a roundabout way in my 28mm Elmarit-M review, but since then it's become ever more clear to me that it...
In the last post in this series I talked bout how viable it is to use an unmodified Jupiter-8 on a Leica rangefinder - following on from that, I thought I might like to find out...
For a good while now I have been fascinated by the idea of hacking compact camera lenses to work on my Leica cameras. So far this has taken me down a few paths, with one end of ...
...I thought I'd write this about how well a few unmodified later model, easy to find, imperfect focusing Jupiter-8 lenses work when used on a Leica rangefinder. Really, this is...
Camera bags are annoying. I remain unconvinced that it's actually possible for any camera bag to come close to ideal for any given person for all or even most shooting circumsta...
I recently got myself involved in a photography project being run by a local hostel. The outline idea of the project is to give a group of the hostel service users the opportuni...
After I posted the last instalment of this little journey to find my perfect classic Sonnar, I went straight out and shot a few photos with my Contax mount Jupiter-8M. My hopes ...
Alan Duncan of Canny Cameras is a man with a sense of humour. I'm sure he must still be chuckling at the moment I agreed to be sent a mystery camera with the promise of sending ...
