As the official release of the 7Artisans 35mm f/2 looms, I’ve been getting excited about it and have taken to using the prototype I’ve had kicking around for a while. Mechanical...
5 April, 2018
5 Frames with a Kodak Retina IIc – By Howard Dale
This is one of my all time favorite cameras. Approx. 136,000 were made between 1954 - 1957. Kodak acquired German manufacturer Nagel in order to produce a camera that could comp...
4 April, 2018
5 Frames with The Contax RTSii – by Anil Mistry
I've been intrigued by Contax SLRs for a while so I eventually caved and got an RTSii and I'm blown away. It's beautiful. a Porsche designed solid hunk of metal with a luxuriou...
A few years ago my parents got me my first own camera - a Leica Vlux 114. Before that I just shot my pictures with cameras, which I lent from them. Soon after that I bought a Le...
29 March, 2018
5 Frames With An Olympus Trip 35 – By Julian Higgs
The Olympus Trip 35 is a much vaunted little camera and has many admirers, me included. I feel like I came to the party late on this one. Having shot film pre-digital (there was...
27 March, 2018
5 Frames with a Rolleicord IIA – by Tom O’Neill
At the beginning of this year I found myself in one of Japan's second hand camera shops. Wherein I fell in love with a Rolleicord II. It seemed as if it was meant to be for I ha...
22 March, 2018
5 Frames with an Olympus Trip 35 – By Huy Le
It's been 8 months since I made the decision to leave Australia and move to Osaka, Japan and it's been an incredible experience. One of the biggest challenges I had when packing...
I have had my Canon AT-1 for 30 years this year, my first ‘proper’ camera when I first started to study photography in the 6th Form. I took it to Iceland with a 28mm f2.8 lens, ...
