It’s not the camera, it’s not because it’s square format, it’s me, or rather us, we just don’t click together. Years ago I used a Hasselblad for a long time, mostly happily, and...
The Krauss Rolette Luxus got my attention twofold: it’s an exceedingly beautiful piece of machinery from the days of yore, and because it is related to the photographic past of ...
Taking stock of my collection one day I realised that there were no cameras that I really wanted to go out and use, which were not German or Japanese. Time try a lovingly crafte...
If you like to shoot film, then you understand that it isn’t every day that a camera maker comes to market with a line of new cameras, let alone large format view cameras....
The Yashica Mat 124G, an embodiment of mid-20th-century camera engineering. It greeted me with its robust, yet elegant, presence. The utilitarian design, devoid of modern frills...
I have recently been experimenting with film again and, using a normal 35mm camera, and decided that I wanted to try something with panoramic format. There is an obvious choice,...
I wrote an article in 2001 about an almost 100 year old camera. Revisiting it now just over 20 years later I am staggered at the progress that has been made with digital equipme...
While the wizardry of modern cameras has reduced a once mighty concept to little more than a phone option variance, there’s something to be said about stepping away from all tha...
