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18 June, 2016

A few snaps with the Leica M8 and Zeiss 28mm ZM Biogon

By Hamish Gill

My Leica M8 has been out of action for a little while. It'd become difficult to use for anything other than close up portraits, so I just lost interest in using it. Yesterday mo...

25 May, 2016

Portraits with the Traveling Yashica, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

By AJ

I signed up for the TravelingYashica in June 2014 when I saw the theme on my twitter feed. It was a long wait of 18 months till I got my hands on the camera in Jan 2015. The cam...

24 April, 2016

I wanna grow up to be Terry Richardson – The Travelling Yashica in Ottawa, Canada

By toonboy7

Hi my name is Weldon Poapst (or Toonboy7 on Flickr and Twitter), I live just outside of Ottawa, the capital of Canada, and have been in the animation industry for over 30 years....

25 March, 2016

An evening of abusing the Leica M8 in low light

By Hamish Gill

If you follow this blog, you might recognise Tom (in the foreground above). He’s one of the unfortunate people I know who frequently has me pointing a camera in his face. ...

17 March, 2016

Experiences with 35mm Ilford SFX – by Rob MacKillop

By Rob MacKillop

Ilford SFX is an extended red sensitivity black and white film, which I had used once before through a medium-format camera. I liked it very much, though it proved expensive for...

13 March, 2016

First (digital) colour photos from the MS-optics converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar

By Hamish Gill

A very quick follow up post to todays early post containing my first colour shots from my MS-Optical converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar. After I posted those shots, I was ask...

13 March, 2016

First colour photos from the MS-optics converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar

By Hamish Gill

In the last part of this story I introduced you to my MS-Optical Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar (I really need to find this thing a shorter name). Since then I’ve shot a roll...

4 March, 2016

Yeg with the Travelling Yashica – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

By weedos

Way back in the late summer of 2015 a package arrived at my door. All the way from Australia it had come (that’s a long way from Sherwood Park, Alberta). I was so pleased ...

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