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10 November, 2025

A Fence For Two and a Story In One (Shot)

By Omar Tibi

10 November, 2025

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Birding has been a part of me ever since I was 11, both as a passion and a way to de-stress. While I’ve taken many photos with my phone’s camera, in all of this time, I’ve never done so with a proper camera, let alone on film. Once I got my tele p...

10 November, 2025

Kamerakraft Nikon Zf Thumb Grip Review

By Hamish Gill

10 November, 2025

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This is going to be the shortest review I have ever written I think – mostly because it’s of the small, inert bit of brass that is the Kamerakraft Nikon Zf Thumb Grip. My initial interest in the Nikon Z system was through a desire to return ...

10 November, 2025

Agima – AGI’s follow-up to the Agimatic

By Bob Janes

10 November, 2025

/ AGI Agima, AGI Rangefinder, rangefinder camera, /

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Previously on Cameras of Croydon… This is my third review of a camera model from Aeronautical General Instruments of Croydon, South London, under their AGILUX brand. The AGIFlex was a 6×6 SLR with a strong resemblance to the Reflex Kore...

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21 May, 2015

Defining the Perfect Lens

By Hamish Gill

Lenses are like the eyes of our cameras, they don’t process information, they just transmit it to what’s behind. Perfect vision, or perfect eyes are always going to ...

18 May, 2015

‘Taab’ lens tab – Pre-production review / beta test report

By Hamish Gill

I do like a focusing tab on a rangefinder lens, I just find focusing slightly more intuitive somehow. Generally speaking I also find the lack of requirement to grip the focusing...

17 May, 2015

A pre-wedding shoot on a farm…

By Hamish Gill

I’ve been shooting weddings fairly sporadically for about 8-9 years now, I’ve always just shot them with the digital, but have been finding this increasingly uninspi...

12 May, 2015

Leica 50mm f/2.5 Summarit-M Review

By Hamish Gill

Along side – or at least attached to – the Leica M-A I recently borrowed from Leica UK was a 50mm f/2.5 Summarit-m. To be honest I’m not sure if they meant to ...

11 May, 2015

First Roll with my Leica M-A – Lndnwlk 3.0

By Hamish Gill

Saturday just gone, the 9th of May 2015, I did my best to put my election result woes to one side and make my way to London for a day out. I had two reasons to be there, the fir...

7 May, 2015

Election Day 2015 – The final push of the Worcester Labour Party

By Hamish Gill

Today – Election Day 2015 – I followed Joy Squires, Labour’s Parliamentary candidate for Worcester around for a large portion of the day. The idea was to docum...

4 May, 2015

Leica M3 DS Review – My final thoughts on the Double Stroke vs. Single Stroke

By Hamish Gill

Since writing my first Leica M3 post – and in fact actually not long after I published it – I found myself in the possession of a rather tatty Leica M3 double stroke...

2 May, 2015

Leica IIIc Review (Long-winded Edition) – By Filmosaur

By Andrej

When I first read about Hamish’s “Win My Leica” contest, I had little thought that I would end up writing the blog post that he mentioned in the contest guidelines. But ha...

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