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16 November, 2018

A Difference Between Professionals and Amateurs – By Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

I do not aspire to be a professional photographer. I shoot maybe three rolls of film per week and another couple hundred images digitally in that same period, which likely would...

16 November, 2018

7Artisans 28mm f/1.4 late-prototype early impressions preview

By Hamish Gill

On Monday this week I received a 7Artisans 28mm f/1.4 late-prototype lens to play with. There’s been a lot of information churning around the rumour mills about this lens lately...

15 November, 2018

5 Frames with an Olympus Zuiko 55mm f/1.2 – by Thomas Risberg

By Thomas Risberg

I've been taking pictures for close to 50 years now. I started seriously shooting with a Pentax Spotmatic and soon moved to a Leica M2 that I bought as a demo unit from a small ...

14 November, 2018

5 Frames travelling with a Mamiya 6 MF – By Faraz

By faraz

A few 35mm cameras into my return to analog and I was eager to try medium format. Trouble is MF cameras are generally a bit bulky and I mostly shoot when on business trips if I ...

13 November, 2018

5 Frames with the Olympus OM Zuiko 100mm f2.8 – By Sandeep

By Ssumal71

I love my Olympus OM1n camera, it is my forever 35mm SLR and I have shot with it long enough to know this true. The other thing that I know to be true is that Olympus Zuiko len...

12 November, 2018

Leica M6J review – The M6 meets the M3 – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

The Leica M6J is a limited edition pre-M6 TTL released in 1994 to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the introduction of the Leica M3 in 1954. Leica produced 1640 of them, ...

11 November, 2018

Rollei Prego AF review – a gem, provided you don’t drop it…

By Hamish Gill

The Rollei Prego AF is a fairly uncommon 35mm f/3.5 35mm fixed lens point & shoot camera that I’ve been on the look out for a while. They’re not all that common, but in many way...

10 November, 2018

5 Frames with a Leica M4-P on a Whisky Pilgrimage – By Nick Holt

By Nick

Leica and film. Two words that seem to be forever linked in my mind. After playing around with a Leica Monochrom digital for a while it was inevitable that I would end up trying...

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