I’ve had this little Canon 50mm f/2.2 for a while now - I bought it attached to a Canon P. Both camera and lens were items I’d eyed up on eBay…
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This post is about the unlikely camera that accidentally got me into film photography – my dad’s old Zenit E.My father bought his Zenit E in the early 70s and mostly…
Canon is the one photography brand that has continually had the distinction of inspiring me the least. There's nothing wrong with Canon. Canon makes great cameras that make great images. Just…
Books, Zines & ExhibitionsWatching the Watcher: An Appreciation of Hitchcock’s Rear Window – By Frank H. Wu
Rear Window is a great movie, and taking photographs is the main character’s essential trait. Francois Truffaut, whose book turned director Alfred Hitchcock the man into one-name “Hitch” the myth, praised…
The Rollei Prego 70 came to me in a box of Olympus cameras; with its aluminum chassis that's the size of a mju-ii, it stands out from the Trip-branded black plastic…
My Petri rangefinder obsession began earlier this year when I finally saw one in person for the first time. In February, a pair of Petri 1.9 Color Corrected Super (1.9 CCS)…
The Canon 50mm f/1.4 ltm is a lens that doesn’t seem to quite have the following it deserves - or at least that’s what you’d guess by looking at their used…
Point & Shoot(NSFW) Yashica Ninja Star II/AF-J2, Thoughts on Salvage – Pedro Trevino’s P&S Journal #2
Early last year I found an odd plastic camera I hadn’t heard of: a Kyocera P. Mini 2. At the time, I was unaware of the Kyocera/Yashica connection. The former purchased…
Accessories Mods & DIYA 35mm Accessory Viewfinder for the Budget Conscious / The Wonders of 3D Printing
In the last few years there seems to have been loads of innovation around the democratisation of manufacturing, with 3D printing being - at least to me - almost the poster-boy…
