June 2022 I was documenting the ceremony and spectacle of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II. Earlier, while allocating my kit, I had found a roll of Ektar...
Most plans are pretty good until they aren’t. I know I had it all planned out in my head as I waited for the birth of my son - the cameras, the lenses, and even the settings. B...
The Rolleiflex 3.5F wasn't my first TLR - that honour goes to the MPP Microcord. But the Rolleiflex is a name up there with Leica and Carl Zeiss.
When one thinks of a TLR, imag...
Good news – we’ve turned all the lights back on! Flipping the figurative switch back on for everything also meant that posts scheduled before the website issues began have...
I first became interested in the Pentax 6x7 system when I saw one in a camera shop window in 1976. I thought that the camera looked like a giant 35mm SLR, and in a sense, that's...
A few months ago, thinking about the possibility of traveling, my girlfriend and I came across a discount offer on plane tickets to Bolivia. The country was on our radar, but at...
Buying for life means maintaining for life. This is true of anything; if you want for your leather boots to not dry out and crack, but to live up to their brand reputation as la...
Better news – the website is nearly back to normal, and we are going to resume publishing articles now! Starting with an article which, appropriately enough, is about repair and...