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9 October, 2024

Capturing a Friend’s Celebration of Life on Film

By David Smith

9 October, 2024

/ Documentary Photography, Event Photography, /

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30 January, 2015

A lost roll from Christmas – 50mm V4 Summicron and XP2

By Hamish Gill

I shot quite a few rolls over Christmas, but a few got left in cameras halfway through. In the case of this film, it got left in the Leica M7. The purchase of an Leica M3 and a ...

25 January, 2015

Footprint Leather Camera Strap with ‘QR Swivels’

By Hamish Gill

There are so many leather camera strap brands out there these days I imagine that for some people it might be hard to know where to start on the path to finding one that suits t...

24 January, 2015

A Quick Guide to a Rangefinder’s Effective Base Length (EBL)

By Hamish Gill

I recently published my thoughts on the Voigtlander R2a and R3a two great cameras that have one major caveat – their short rangefinder effective base length. I’m now...

21 January, 2015

First roll with the Leica M3

By Hamish Gill

It’s been a very busy couple of weeks since the Leica M3 found its way to me. So much so that I’ve only managed to squeeze a single roll through it so far; I almost...

19 January, 2015

Canonet QL17 GIII Review – Affordable, Fine and Reliable – by Armin Rebihic

By Armin Rebihic

It wasn’t until I was sitting on a train, heading downtown, that a stranger across from me told me how the camera I had on me was great. The Canonet QL17 GIII is a wo...

15 January, 2015

Voigtlander VC Meter II Light Meter Review

By Hamish Gill

I’ve decided I should review some of the collection of compact camera and rangefinder accessories I seem to have been collecting recently. I was trying to decide where to ...

14 January, 2015

MR-9 Battery Adapter

By Hamish Gill

I have previously written about adapting a 675 hearing aid battery for use in cameras that require a 1.35 volt PX625. I was pretty confident at the time that since hearing aid b...

10 January, 2015

Low light fun with Ilford HP5+ at ei3200 and Ilfotec DD-X

By Hamish Gill

These days I rarely find the need to shoot with with film much faster than 400 iso, but a few years back I used to shoot a lot more faster film. I suspect back then – sinc...

Cem Eren on Breaking the Bank for a Bubble — A One-Shot Story
Amazing photograph. If you did this with a digital camera, probably you would experience a so called shutter killer shooting…
Thomas Wolstenholme on Capturing a Friend’s Celebration of Life on Film
If you feel that these 7 are the best, then I'd like to see at least the remaining ones that…
Geoff Chaplin on Capturing a Friend’s Celebration of Life on Film
It must have been hard for you to write about this, and it's hard for me to find the words…

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