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18 March, 2018

What is a Rangefinder Camera, and is one right for you?

By Hamish Gill

For many photographers rangefinder cameras are some of the most simple, easy to use, unimposing and inconspicuous cameras available. Yet for those who don’t get on with them, th...

26 February, 2018

A National Geographic Find – by Chris Page

By pagespics

Holidays often provide the opportunity to explore new areas for Street Photography. However, for this break, I traveled to the far reaches of Pelorus Sounds in New Zealand. Beau...

5 November, 2017

Leica M-Mount Modified Yashica Electro 45mm f/1.7 lens

By Hamish Gill

Regular readers of this website will be aware of my interest in modified and modifying lenses to work on Leica cameras. I guess this is why Ellis, or f1.420 as he goes by on Ins...

29 October, 2017

Modding a 28mm Canon Demi C lens for M39 mount – by Tobias Eriksson

By Flashknappen

Following on from my Canon Demi C review, I wanted to write something about the orphaned lens that came about from me only shooting it with the 50mm. Having that nice lens gathe...

9 September, 2017

A little introduction to 35mm for Pinhole photography – Guest post by Alex Yates

By Alex Yates

This post has been a long-time coming, I think I’ve lost count of the number of times Hamish has trolled me about writing about shooting 35mm pinhole cameras.

1 July, 2017

Sony A7Rii – Making it work for me – Take Perfect. Spoil it. Be happy – by Aivaras

By Aivaras

I really enjoyed Hamish's recent articles about the Sony A7RII, and the one regarding the never ending “film vs digital” debate. To me, these two articles felt as though they we...

3 June, 2017

Jupiter-8 – fluked success at modification – Finding my Perfect Classic Sonnar – PT6

By Hamish Gill

In the last post in this series I talked bout how viable it is to use an unmodified Jupiter-8 on a Leica rangefinder - following on from that, I thought I might like to find out...

28 May, 2017

Tips and a DIY tool for film loading using a 35mm Paterson Tank System – guest post by Guy

By GW

Following on from the Parallax review of the Paterson reel system, I thought I would share a few quick tips and a little home made device a use for helping load one. This might ...

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