As I write this, a heavy shower has just passed and the sun is beaming down once again. Photons are showering the solar array on my…
Camera History
Camera History
Zeiss Jena 5cm Sonnars – The Magic of the Prewar Uncoated Sonnar – By Brian Sweeney
April 29, 2020Interchangeable lens 35mm rangefinder cameras became popular almost 90 years ago when Leitz introduced the Leica II and Zeiss debuted the Contax I. Both companies brought…
On an undisclosed date in September, 1979, Cosina released the CT-1 to little fanfare. After all, it was hardly a game changer. The CT-1 is a…
5 frames with...• Camera History
5 Frames with a No.2 Kodak Hawkeye Folding Camera Model C – By Jochen Utecht
July 25, 2019Recently I stumbled across a very old brown leather bag on the flea market in the German School in Beijing. It turned out it housed an…
Camera History• Scale Focus
Voigtländer Vito BL Review – Compact Excellence – by Andrew Morang
April 5, 2019Reading 35mmc can be dangerous to the pocketbook and can lead to GAS (no, not flatulence, but gear acquisition syndrome). I read several glowing articles here…
The Agfa xx35 series of cameras (in this case the 1035) and the Plaubel Makina 67 are both wonderful examples of what what appears to be…
Holidays often provide the opportunity to explore new areas for Street Photography. However, for this break, I traveled to the far reaches of Pelorus Sounds in…
In the great British tradition of “Keep calm and muddle through”, during WW2, British official war photographers had used a whole hodge podge of assorted cameras,…
Camera History• Gear Theory
The Genius of Barnack, a Leica iiia & how rangefinders found a home on 35mmc
April 3, 2014Until a few weeks ago I hadn’t held a Barnack Leica for a good few years, so long in fact that whilst I knew the name…
