The Leica Standard, or Model E as it’s also known, was brought to market by Leitz in 1932, and with minor tweaks to its design, its production continued into the late 1940s. As ...
11 January, 2019
Minox 35 GT review – a true pocket camera – by Gaston W
I met the Minox 35 GT about a year ago, and it has stayed in my pocket ever since. You read it right, in my pocket. This is certainly the smallest 35mm camera I’ve seen. The Min...
7 January, 2019
Yashica Y35 Review – it’s not for us hoity-toity elitist film photographers, you know!?
The Yashica Y35 is without doubt one of the most controversial products to have hit the analogue photography community in the last year or so. Of course, it’s not analogue, so w...
In 2015 when I decided I wanted to give film photography a try, it was the Leica M3 rangefinder that intrigued me the most. However, at the time I did not feel I was ready to pl...
4 January, 2019
Asahi Takumar 24mm Lens on a Leica M2 – by Andrew Morang
When I travel overseas and need to pack light, I often take my Leica M2 rangefinder camera with compact 35mm and 50mm f/2.0 Summicron lenses (along with light meter, filters, an...
The lesser photographer, a book by CJ Chilvers, is a reorganised and edited compendium of thoughts about photography taken from his blog. I suppose you could call it tips, or ma...
24 December, 2018
Panomicron Oxygen review – A 3D Printed Hasselblad Xpan Alternative
I’ve recently bought myself a Panomicron Oxygen - a panoramic 35mm film camera that’s the same format as the Hasselblad Xpan, but at a fraction of the price. It might not be as ...
21 December, 2018
Canon QL17 Giii review – Discovering cameras I’d Missed Along the Way – Part 1 – By Steve Ember
Over the past few years, I’ve been enjoying rediscovering a type of camera that I’d somehow “leapfrogged” past in my youthful headlong rush to transition from more basic equipme...
