Today I would like to take you on a voyage into the post-war film industry of Germany and specifically the DDR, East-Germany with a look back at the history and films or Orwo. M...
29 December, 2016
Voigtlander f/1.5 50mm Nokton LTM – Review by Hern Tan
The Voigtlander Nokton f/1.5 50mm is a lens that has long been compared to, unfairly, as the lesser of the two 50mm f/1.5 lenses offered in M mount (or in this case LTM), being ...
26 December, 2016
MS-Optics 21mm f/4.5 Perar Review- a tiny, and very eccentric lens
The MS-Optics 21mm f/4.5 Perar is, without a doubt the smallest lens I've ever shot with on a Leica rangefinder. In fact, it's probably one of the smallest full frame lenses eve...
14 December, 2016
Leica M6 – In Praise of the Classic- by Hokari57
Simply put, It's my opinion that the Leica M6 is the best of the film M bodies that you can hope to shoot with. How I came to realize this only took me a MP, a M3 and a M4 to sh...
11 December, 2016
Ricoh GR1 – will it dethrone my Olympus XA2? – by Frank Lehnen
Since this morning, I'm the proud owner of a Ricoh GR1. I've really longed to try this camera out, so I thought I would try to give a day by day report or review of my early exp...
3 December, 2016
Leica M-D: To M-D or not to M-D? – By Adam Singer
So a man walks into a camera store - stop me if you have heard this one - and says, ‘ I want that new Leica MD’. That’s the full frame all singing but no dancing digital Leica w...
26 November, 2016
Zeiss Ikon Taxona Review – Shooting Square – by Rajmohan Fotograf
Being aware of square format only in the context of medium format cameras, I was intrigued by a recent thread in a photography forum in which 35mm square format cameras (such as...
22 November, 2016
Lomo LC-Wide Review – The Ultra-wide, Point & Shoot
Since the day it was released I've been intrigued by the Lomography Lomo LC-Wide. It's not often these days that new film cameras are brought to market, never mind one that offe...
