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23 March, 2022

Voigtlander Vito B, Plus Accessories – A Very Interesting Charity Shop Find – By Seb Copley

By sebcopley

This is not going to be a review, just some early thoughts on my experiences using the oldest camera I have so far owned. The Voigtlander Vito B has been reviewed many times, no...

22 March, 2022

Digital Nostalgia – 5 Early Digital Cameras from between 2001 and 2005 – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

The world spins. Everything comes around. Eventually we start to get misty-eyed about stuff that seems to have only just left the room. Yes, I'm at that point. I’m about to get ...

14 March, 2022

Lomography Daguerrotype Achromat Mini Review – Street Portraits – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

The Lomography Daguerrotype Achromat has been around for a few years now- a replica of one of the original portrait lenses from way back in the day, it’s based on a formula from...

11 March, 2022

Using a Mobile Phone And a Free App To Scan Negatives – By George Griffin

By George G

When I first got back into analogue photography back in 2015, the biggest problem for me was how do I get these analogue images into a digital format to post on either a blog, F...

9 March, 2022

Street Photography in Copenhagen in the 1960s – By Teit Joergensen

By Teit Joergensen

My uncle had a Leica and this got me interested in photography. My parents had Family of Man by Edward Steichen which I studied intensively. When I was 11-12 years old I got an...

8 March, 2022

Contax G1 – Much more in-focus than out-of-focus – By Chantel Wakefield

By Chantel Wakefield

“I loved owning one for two weeks until every photo came back out of focus.” This was a comment from a popular YouTuber under another popular YouTuber’s review of the Contax G1 ...

7 March, 2022

Lens Punk LPK-M Review – A Single Element ~f/64 ~28mm Lens (Shot on a Leica M10-P)

By Hamish Gill

Last autumn time, I shot a single element ‘Lens Punk LPK-M’ lens on my Leica M10-P. The lens is made by a chap called Dom, he doesn’t class himself as an expert in optics, he ju...

28 February, 2022

Industar-69 (on Fujifilm X-Pro3) Review – A Dreamy, Compact Wonder – By Don Goodman Wilson

By Don Goodman-Wilson

The Industar-69 (Индуста́р-69) is a strange but beguiling beast. Originally designed for the Chaika (Чайка) camera, it wasn't really meant to be used with other cameras. The ori...

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