27 May, 2017
Canon AF-10 DIY LTM lens conversion
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
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...
22 February, 2017
Adjusting the rangefinder of the Fed4 – Guest post by Howard hurd
A fairly common issue on online forums with the Fed rangefinders seems to be rangefinder accuracy. When I first bought my Fed4, the rangefinder patch did not align accurately ei...
One subject I didn't touch on in my recent Lomo LC-Wide review was shooting it in low light. I had in mind that I would take it around the local Christmas Fayre, and having a go...
I've just loaded my Lubitel 166b 120 6x6 format film camera with a roll of 35mm film... so thought I'd write a quick post to demonstrate how.
1 October, 2016
A brief history of Reid & Sigrist – Guest post by Wilson Laidlaw
In the great British tradition of “Keep calm and muddle through”, during WW2, British official war photographers had used a whole hodge podge of assorted cameras, ranging from l...
My first Leica was an M2 in 1959 it came with a 5cm 2.8 Elmar to which were added over time a 9cm and a 13.5cm. I never did get a wide angle 3.5cm, but what a nice viewfinder th...
3 August, 2016
DIY Leica M6 remote shutter release – Guest post by Guy
...I found myself (quite often) wanting to take group photos with family or colleagues but I had no means of achieving that with the M6. I thought about a mechanical timer but I...
