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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 ...

27 May, 2017

Canon AF-10 DIY LTM lens conversion

By Hamish Gill

For a good while now I have been fascinated by the idea of hacking compact camera lenses to work on my Leica cameras. So far this has taken me down a few paths, with one end of ...

1 May, 2017

How to Choose the Best Camera for Street Photography – Guest post by Digby Fullam of Streethunters.net

By Digby Fullam

Gear isn’t the be all and end-all, but the right gear still makes life so much easier. While street photography may not be the absolutely most demanding photography medium on eq...

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