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© Phil Maxwell, The Kiss, Brick Lane Laundrette, early 1980s. Shot on an Olympus XA2.

26 June, 2026

Phil Maxwell, the Olympus XA2, and the Street as Theatre

By Shafiur Rahman

26 June, 2026

/ Camera Theory, Olympus XA2, Phil Maxwell, /

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15 April, 2026

The only camera I’m allowed to own

By Keith Smith

…ok, so the title is a bit misleading – I’m a grown man, I can own as many cameras as my wife says I can. What I’m taking about here is the hypothetical ‘if’; if I absolutely ha...

14 April, 2026

Taking Photos in Museums: A Meditation

By David Pauley

I. Observing On a trip to the world’s busiest museum last fall, my husband and I were rudely jostled by a determined fellow museum-goer, a middle-aged Parisienne who shuffled fr...

14 April, 2026

Canon SureShot Zoom XL – Out of the Drawer and Into the Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvanation (Part Two)

By Niall Keohane

To paraphrase one of the trolls in Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’: “Rain yesterday, rain today, and blimey, if it don’t look like rain again tomorrer.” It’s raining as I write this. It ...

13 April, 2026

Leica 50mm Lenses – The “Goldilocks Leica Lens Challenge” Day One – Summilux vs. Summarit…

By Scott Ferguson

February 27, 2026 was feeling like a very promising day for photography. It was a warm and sunny Friday in NYC. Between the impending weekend and the slightly unseasonable wea...

12 April, 2026

MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 (v1.2 firmware) & Nikon 50mm 1.4 AF-D

By Hamish Gill

This article is a quick review of the Nikon 50mm 1.4 AF-D lens in combination with the MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 with version 1.2 firmware. It is part of a series of articles I’m wr...

12 April, 2026

Nikon 50mm 1.4 AF-D Mini-Review

By Hamish Gill

I started writing this as just a commentary on how well the Nikon 50mm f/1.4 AF-D lens works on the Monster Adapters LA-FZ1, but as I’ve written it started to unravel into somet...

Image of our prototype light meter watch in front of a camera

12 April, 2026

Why being bad at photography led me to create the world’s first digital ‘light meter watch’

By Richard Soler

Ever wondered if you can learn manual exposure without having a camera in your hand? It’s an odd question and to be honest I wouldn’t blame you if you hadn’t. But it’s a questio...

11 April, 2026

Leica-R Summicron 50/2 on Nikon F3

By Julian Tanase

In a recent article on my website I spoke about a Leica-R Summicron 50/2 (v2) being converted to Nikon F mount, by means of a Nikon F mount ring (Leitax). As far as I know, this...

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