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6 August, 2024
5 Frames with a Fed-2 – New aspects, old subject
Following up our photo walk last year Tim Wainwright, Bob Janes and I met up at the end of May for another one. This time it was in Greenwich, familiar stomping ground for Bob a...
5 August, 2024
Leica CL – A Vindication
Born from a collaboration between Leitz and Minolta, the Leica CL was introduced in 1973 as a premium compact rangefinder camera with a 40mm Summicron lens as well as a 90mm f4,...
4 August, 2024
5 Frames of Iceland (on Portra 400 and HP5+)
I’ve been trying to write this for over seven months, yet I can still remember the trip quite vividly. In November 2023, my wife and I were planning a trip to Iceland after a ra...
3 August, 2024
A Few Musing on Theatre Photography
Over the years I have photographed a fair amount of theatre works – opera, concerts, prose – but I have never really analysed what was happening while I was shooting...
2 August, 2024
5 Frames Around the University of Minnesota
My first camera was a Minolta x-370. It was actually my mother’s camera. I shot that camera with reckless abandon from my teens well into my twenties. My eventual wife enc...
I have always been fascinated by rangefinder cameras. Their namesake’s original application around the turn of the 19th century in naval gunnery had piqued my interest at first ...
1 August, 2024
Ghost Town Photography in Colorado
Want to know a little bit about one of Colorado’s biggest mining towns in the mid 1800’s that is now a ghost town? On the outskirts of a casino town of Black Hawk, t...
1 August, 2024
Hasselblad SWC vs. Mamiya 7 with 43mm lens – A Personal Wide-Angle Medium Format Showdown
A few years ago I came to own both a Hasselblad SWC and a Mamiya 7 with a 43mm lens. Both cameras are medium format cameras with very wide-angle lenses. I have long tried to mai...
