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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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21 October, 2022

5 Frames in Ilskile Church with Nikon FM and Kodak Tri-X – by Felix I Flores Rodriguez

By Felix Flores Rodriguez

The term muscle memory is often used in society, however, do we know what it means? I must confess to being guilty as charged using the phrase mentioned above. The term's meanin...

20 October, 2022

Boffin’s Bower Revisited – The First Chapter of an Ongoing Project – By Peter Roberts

By Peter Roberts

In 1977 I was working on secondment at an office on Euston Road in London. I had recently upgraded to a Minolta SRT 303b and happening to see an invitation for entries to a phot...

19 October, 2022

Anecdotes from the Analogue World Ep. 2 – By Nandakumar

By Nandakumar N

Last time I told you about how I learnt about a symbiotic interaction between kids living on the river bank and the train that passes over the bridge that crosses the river. Th...

18 October, 2022

Dusty True Blue – Cyanotype Fabric Printing Project from Jess Jones

By Molly Kate

Dusty True Blue is a project created by Jess Jones, Virginia (USA) based artist/photographer, where she is currently making beautiful cyanotype printed bags, shoes, and jeans. W...

18 October, 2022

5 Frames with the Kodak Cresta II – By Richard de Bulat

By Richard de Bulat

I suppose the first question is, why would anyone want to use the Kodak Cresta II for serious photography – it’s a joke, right? Well, you might say the same about the Holga or p...

17 October, 2022

TTArtisan New Tilt 50mm 1.4 Lens Release

By Molly Kate

TTArtisan brings us a new tilt-shift 50mm F1.4 lens with the ability to get creative in manipulating focus planes. Tilt-shift lenses allow photographers to manipulate focus plan...

17 October, 2022

Pentax 50mm f/1.2 SMC lens on Film with a Pentax LX – by Aivaras

By Aivaras

This wouldn’t be review of camera body or lens, there are plenty written. What I’ll share is my personal story of how I come to this set. One more aspect why I’m writing this is...

16 October, 2022

5 Frames with a Sinar F1 in the local park – By Alasdair Mackintosh

By Alasdair Mackintosh

A few weeks ago I went to the San Jose Museum of Art, which is showing an exhibition of Brett Weston's prints. (It runs until January 2023, and if you are in the area I highly r...

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