I’ve been a long time user of Japanese Contax cameras, hence I also have a fondness for related West German cameras with the Zeiss Ikon name. I wrote a review of the pretty (if ...
Ibraar Hussain's Posts
19 June, 2026
Fifty shades of Neon in God’s own Junkyard
I’m from Walthamstow, an ancient town in the borough of Waltham Forest, tucked away in the North-East of London, about 7 and a half Miles from Charing Cross. it was a sad sad da...
7 June, 2026
An Ode to my Dad, and to all Fathers everywhere.
I was raised in your arms; the youngest of your children, and you left the world in mine, leaving an emptiness I cannot comprehend. Above: One of the last portraits I took of my...
5 June, 2026
Fujichrome Provia 100 (Expired) – Contax RTS II, Yashica ML 50mm f2 and Pentacon 135mm Monster
I bought a roll of Expired Fujichrome Provia 100 just to give it a go a while back. I didn’t expect much – grain, colour shifts etc, but I’m a Slide Film lover...
25 April, 2026
Fujifilm FinePix F200 EXR and a trip down Digicam Lane
I have dabbled quite a bit with various Fujifilm cameras. My very first Digital camera was a 4 Mega Pixel Fujifilm A403 which I used quite a bit in 2002/03. My most memorable jo...
Part III of my “Seeing Panoramic” series. You can see Part I which features this same Fujifilm TX-2 Xpan) I went to Cornwall once (Kernow in Cornish –Baner Peran) . It was...
9 March, 2026
Minolta Panoramic A-303si SLR – Why you don’t need to spend 4 Grand on an XPan – Seeing Panoramic Part II
I wrote a post sometime back about my experience with the Fuji TX-2 aka Hasselblad XPan II. A lovely camera which I sold for peanuts, it’s now risen in price so much that ...
2 March, 2026
Pakistan With the Olympus E1 and E3 – Part 2 Overlanding the Karakoram and Hindu Kush by 4×4
This is the follow up to Part 1 – 33 Years Exploring Pakistan. There aren’t many flights around the world where the Pilot decides to bank the aircraft around to turn...