Whenever my wife and I visit a foreign city, I check to see if the town or a surrounding city has a Flea Market to check out the local market of used and collectible cameras. Th...
Back in 2000, when I was making some feeble attempts to return to medium format, I had a few choices regarding cameras suitable for me. Obviously, one of the best was the Rollei...
So now what? This is the question I ask myself, or perhaps should have asked myself when I rashly bought this wonderful example of an English plate camera. It’s a Thornton...
A few years ago I came to own both a Hasselblad SWC and a Mamiya 7 with a 43mm lens. Both cameras are medium format cameras with very wide-angle lenses. I have long tried to mai...
My first foray into the world of TLR cameras was back in the early 1980’s, courtesy of a brand new Lubitel. I bought it from an old fashioned camera shop on Oldham Street ...
In the early days of the pandemic I purchased a Mamiya 7 kit from an old timer at a reasonable price. This had long been a dream camera of mine and I had been searching for one ...
If you have never shot a Holga, please don’t let this article make you think that Holgas have lots of problems and are complicated to shoot. My first Holga roll ever had lots o...
This is a review of the Pearl River 4. But first a little Chinese camera history. The first TLR to be manufactured in China was the Shanghai TLR by the Shanghai Camera company. ...
