Tell me something that is heavy, hard, old and almost unbreakable. Is it a stone? No, it's a prewar Contax. I say "almost unbreakable", as these poor specimens have seen better ...
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2 July, 2020
Some photos and thoughts on Graffiti – By Rock
I was recently looking back through some of my photographs from the last few years and noticed that every now and then an image of graffiti would pop up in a roll. It seems that...
I currently live in London UK, but some years ago I lived in the Middle East working as a journalist. I have a life long habit of street photography and have had many iterations...
Weeks of lockdown were beginning to play tricks on my mind. That was the only possible explanation I could come up as I checked the screen confirmation on Amazon that I had inde...
Photography has been an interest of mine since I can remember, one that seems to only grow over time. Back when I was using digital point’n’shoots (I couldn’t then imagine carry...
29 June, 2020
Konica 17mm f/16 Hexagon Lens Review – Plastic Fantastic or a Poor Man’s Hologon? – By Simon Kimber
I recently bought a Konica Hexagon 17mm f/16 on Ebay. Maybe you haven't heard of this lens before? I hadn't either. It's not the perfect lens, that's for sure, but I've been hav...
I've been following Sandy Phimester's work for a number of years now - I'd go as far as to say that he's one of the photographers whose work I admire the most. The funny thing i...
It’s the one that comes with the camera, it’s the 'nifty fifty' and the bog standard prime lense everyone has included in the pack that’s so quickly forgotten and replaced by fa...
