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6 December, 2019

Leica M8 – A Year with an Ageing Digital Rangefinder – By Rui Hu

By Rui Hu

The Leica M8 was the first digital Leica I've ever shot with, and was also the most film-like digital camera I've ever used. I fell in love with a camera for the first time, and...

2 December, 2019

Zeiss ZM M-Mount Lenes – The Lenses I “Need”, and not just “Want”

By Hamish Gill

Over the last 6 or so months I’ve really bought into the Zeiss ZM system of lenses. I’ve gone from owning 2 of them to 5, and in combination with film and digital cameras they m...

27 November, 2019

Olympus OM-2n – My First SLR Film Camera Review – Ivan Studynskyi

By Ivan Studynskyi

My first experience with film started when my friend let me take some photos with her camera, one of which just struck me (to this day I think it is one of the best photos I hav...

26 November, 2019

Nikon FE Review – Returning to Film with a Fun, Compact, Affordable and Easy SLR – By Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

My father was a documentary photographer and shot a Leica in the 1950s and 60s. He photographed my brother and me all the time when we were growing up in Switzerland, mainly wit...

25 November, 2019

Pentax-M 40mm f/2.8 and Pentax MX – imperfect, but pocketable!

By Hamish Gill

In my recent Pentax MX review I touched on the fact that I’d only really been shooting it with the 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens. This is a lens that seems to divide opinion a little ...

22 November, 2019

Pentax MV-1 & 40mm f/2.8 Review – A Quest For an Ideal Compact Film SLR – Part 1 – by Ed Lara

By Photoedontheweb

My GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) setting was kicked up a notch recently as a result of falling in love with the Olympus XA. The XA is a great camera, but despite my small hand...

15 November, 2019

Fuji Natura 1600 & Shooting Star Trails and at Night – By Bill Thoo

By Bill Thoo

I have the privilege of travelling for work to the Central West of New South Wales twice a year. After hours are typically my own, and I usually take those opportunities for pho...

14 November, 2019

Canon 28mm f/2.8 LTM – A Short Review – By Atanas Grozdev

By Photo-g-rap-her

I started to shoot on film in a cold winter of 2014. I used to shoot mainly with compact film cameras with color negative film, were I tried to test as many as possible of them....

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