30 December, 2025
The Discipline of One Lens
Life is too easy for photographers these days! We have wide-ranging, versatile zoom lenses. Those folk using phones also have a choice of focal lengths on many models. Now I usu...
Ken Davis's Posts
20 October, 2025
Prakticas and Their Associated Lenses – Building A Film Camera and Lens System At Reasonable Cost
The post that Matt Reverzani gave us about his work with a Praktica L prompted me to write an article about this range of cameras. Now the Prakticas were always ‘bottom of the p...
8 February, 2020
Re-Acquainting with Adox Scala B&W Slide Film – By Ken Davis
A bit of background, I've been taking photos for more than 50 years starting with Prakticas (models FXII, IV and V) using a Prakticamat for many years, then a Chinon Memotron. I...