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I’ve been digging in the vaults lately, having too much time on my hand and a new scanner I had been putting together an article on a Contax TVS I, TVS II, TVS II and T2 &...
I have long been interested in trying a camera with larger negatives, but because the Fuji GW690 is rather expensive for something that might turn out to be of no more than nove...
19 April, 2025
One Shot (Plus One) Story – All That Lasts
These three bags of rubble are all that remains of a ‘renovated’ building. By chance, though, I took a photo of the building as it was being demolished. The differen...
14 April, 2025
Samoca Super 28XLM Review – A Fantastic Littler Rangefinder
Say hello to my little Samoca rangefinder. “Sa-MO-ca!” Fun to say, isn’t it? Made around 1957, it was part of a wave of new cameras made by new marques that had suddenly appeare...
18 February, 2025
A personal view of the CCD versus CMOS debate.
There has been quite a bit of discussion recently about the relative merits of CCD and CMOS sensors. I did some further reading and came across this article. The most interestin...
8 February, 2025
Don’t Take It So Seriously – Putting the Funny Back Into Photography
“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” — E. B. White If you read the comments on YouTube, Facebook or Instag...
A huge benefit of the Leica M system is, that there are still new lenses being released for M-mount. Plenty actually. And this makes it really something special, as I am not awa...
8 January, 2025
Hokkaido Road Trip with Sora 200 and Phoenix 200
I usually traveled by ferry to Japan, but the next destination required a flight: Hokkaido. The northernmost island had eluded me for some time. On my way out of Korea and back ...
