Open-aperture TTL metering was pretty standard when I started using 35mm SLRs in the Eighties, but back in the Sixties it was a Big New Thing. These two cameras, the Topcon RE S...
After exclusively shooting my Sony A7R2 & Leica Q the last 3 years for personal and client work, I decided it was time to get out of my comfort zone and purchase a film camera t...
As any aspiring film photographer (or at least, any I can imagine), with time I found my perfectly fine Minolta Srt-101 lacking for some reason. Collector’s syndrome much? Yeah,...
I picked up this Nikkormat FTn back in the winter - it was actually the first of a string of SLRs I’ve recently either bought or tried. Beyond my usual desire to buy cameras to ...
Hi there. I’m Meifei Tang. I live in Shenzhen, China. I've loved taking photos since I was a child. My first camera was the Keystone compact camera. My parents gave it to me on ...
The best camera, they say, is the camera you get for free. I still don’t know who “they” are, but I do know that I found my camera in the back of a dusty closet when I was movin...
Your kilo of soviet metal, your light meter which stopped working decades ago, your dark, murky viewfinder designed to just miss focus, your rewind mechanism engineered to give ...
If you've read any of my previous contributions to this website, you may recall that I started my photographic journey with a pair of Praktica's. My first was a Praktica MTL3 an...
