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6 April, 2026

Monster Adapter LA-FZ1 – Review Overview & Introduction

By Hamish Gill

6 April, 2026

/ Hamish’s Monster LA-FZ1 experiences, Lens adapter, Lens Adapting & Modification, Monster Adapter LA-FZ1, /

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This is an introduction post to what I intend to be an ongoing series detailing the Monster Adapter LA-FZ1 – an adapter that allows screw drive Nikon AF lenses to be used on Nikon Z-Mount cameras. This post series will collectively form some...

6 April, 2026

Monster Adapter LA-FZ1 (v1.2 firmware) & Nikon 180mm 2.8 AF

By Hamish Gill

6 April, 2026

/ 180mm lens, Hamish’s Monster LA-FZ1 experiences, Lens Adapting & Modification, Monster Adapter LA-FZ1, Nikon 180mm 2.8 AF, SLR lens, Telephoto Lens, /

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This is my first follow up article to my Monster Adapter LA-FZ1 overview/review article here, as well as my wider Monster LA-FZ1 experiences. As I said in that article, I currently have a 8 Nikon AF and AF-D lenses, some of which work better than ...

6 April, 2026

Leica 50mm Lenses – The “Goldilocks Leica Lens Challenge” – Introduction

By Scott Ferguson

6 April, 2026

/ Leica 50mm 1.5 Summarit, Leica 50mm Summicron DR, Leica 50mm Summilux, Leica 50mm summitar, Lens Theory, /

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For reasons I may not be able to fully explain (even to myself), but many 35mmc regular readers and contributors will understand, I own four different Leica 50mm lenses. Leica cameras have remained the dominant high end range finder camera throug...

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5 Frames of Kodak Double XX 5222 on a Pentax Espio 24EW in Madrid

By Nick Orloff

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24 June, 2024

The Kids Are Alright – A One Shot Story

By John Bennett

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24 June, 2024

Olympus E-1 Review – Down the Kodak CCD Rabbit Hole

By Ibraar Hussain

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23 June, 2024

5 Frames with expired Agfa CNS in a Rollei A110 and processed in expired chemicals.

By Bob Janes

This subminiature stuff tends to drag you in.. While looking at various ways of reloading and re-using 110 cartridges recently, I remembered that I’d come across some 110 film w...

22 June, 2024

In praise of ‘cheap’ lenses for ‘pro’ works

By Andrea Monti

I have recently discovered Viltrox, a Chinese manufacturer of lenses for the Fujifilm X-system. I am using the AF 85/1,8 II XF and the AF 56/1,4 XF and I am very satisfied by th...

21 June, 2024

The World is Freshly Washed – A One Shot Story

By Klaus Döring

In the first warm light of a beautiful and cloudless October morning, the place lies gently nestled at the exit of the sewer, on a moraine ridge and looks east with the harbor o...

21 June, 2024

How to Take a 3-D Photo with Almost Any Camera

By Stereoscopy Blog

Today, June 21st 2024, is the 3rd International Stereoscopy Day, 186 years since inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone first presented his mirror stereoscope and theory of binocular v...

20 June, 2024

5 frames with a Voigtländer Bessa R2, a Nokton 35/1,4 and a roll of an expired Kodak Portra 160

By Andrea Monti

Tevere, the river that divides Rome in two, is one of my favourite places. No matter how much chaos there is in the ‘high places’: walking along the banks of the riv...

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Gary Smith on Leica 50mm Lenses – The “Goldilocks Leica Lens Challenge” – Introduction
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Gary Smith on Monster Adapter LA-FZ1 – Review Overview & Introduction
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