It’s been playing on my mind that I so frequently talk about my Leica M7 on here without it really fitting the 35mm compact camera niche subject I originally intended to a...
Hamish Gill's Posts
4 April, 2014
Leatherman Squirt S4 review (for Photographers)
When I first bought the leatherman Squirt S4 a mate of mine (an action film watching, swears at football on the TV and drinks a lot of lager type mate) told me I had bought a “g...
Until a few weeks ago I hadn’t held a Barnack Leica for a good few years, so long in fact that whilst I knew the name “Leica” when I did hold one, I had no rea...
Firstly, this camera isn’t strictly speaking called a “Prima 120” it’s a “Prima Super 120” or a “Sureshot Classic 120” or an R...
A 6 o’clock start isn’t really my cup of tea if I’m honest, especially when it’s going to be 11 hours until we reach the hotel we are staying at just out...
The DX barcode on a 35mm roll of film is there, in part, to tell the camera it’s put into what ISO the film is. The majority of cameras from the mid 80’s onwards rea...
16 February, 2014
Ricoh GR1v Review – My Final thoughts
If you have read the previous post about the Ricoh GR1 series of cameras, you might be under the impression that I had fallen out with the Ricoh GR1v? Well, this isn’t the...
9 February, 2014
Ricoh GR1 – A tale of repair and repeated woe
In my previous Ricoh GR1 post, I was at a point in my relationship with it where we had just recently gone our separate ways. Nearly a year on, and a lot has happened since!