30 October, 2025
Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)
After our recent road trip, which included a night at the Hotel Finlen in Butte, Montana, and a chance to photograph the window where Robert Frank made one of the 83 images incl...
20 October, 2025
Prakticas and Their Associated Lenses – Building A Film Camera and Lens System At Reasonable Cost
The post that Matt Reverzani gave us about his work with a Praktica L prompted me to write an article about this range of cameras. Now the Prakticas were always ‘bottom of the p...
19 October, 2025
Assignment of Exposures using Ansel Adams’ Zone System
The purpose of this post is to get the reader a full picture on The Zone System explaining step by step the way it works. Since most tutorials I have come across with were too s...
Back at the beginning of June this year (2025) while searching the dreaded eBay looking for my next new old camera to add to my growing collection I came across a Zorki 6 in ...
3 October, 2025
“Half Framing” Practically Any Film Camera (Part 1 of 2)
I love creativity of all kinds. But it has taken me down some strange rabbit holes (like here, here, here and here). This article is another. I hope you find it interesting and ...
29 September, 2025
Twin Lens Reflex – My Experiences and Thoughts on this Camera Type – Show and Tell
History, design and examples from a number of TLR cameras.
14 September, 2025
My DIY Analog Journey
I’m Adrien, a french DIY and technical stuff enthusiast. For many years (since I’m 3, I guess), I have really liked to experiment with new things, undertaking a lot ...
17 August, 2025
It’s Time for the Soft-Focus Revival!
Try it! The most salient learning of my soft-focus foray was a greater awareness for light! With hindsight, that alone was worth it. But I enjoyed so much more in my journey fro...
