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9 June, 2025

A Year in Pictures – 12 Frames in 12 Months

By Scott Ferguson

9 June, 2025

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22 July, 2017

Scarabaeus Review – an elegant belt clip for your camera

By Hamish Gill

I have a bit of a thing about simple design. My appreciation for products that function to solve a single problem perfectly is something I think I've mentioned a fair few times ...

16 July, 2017

Konica Hexar (AF) review – Picking a few holes in the Untouchable

By Hamish Gill

I've talked about the Konica Hexar a couple of times on this blog, it's even been reviewed here by master musician Rob Mackillop, but so far, despite owning one for a while, I'm...

9 July, 2017

A Canon Prima BF-90, 3 Rolls of Agfa Vista 200 and a Trip to Japan – Guest post by Nuraishah Shamsuddin

By Hamish Gill

My name is Nuraishah Shamsuddin. Im a 23 years old traveler and photographer based in Malaysia. Since I was a kid, I used to travel with my parents in and out of the countries. ...

8 July, 2017

Leica M6 Street Photography – Tokyo Files – by Mark Forbes

By Mark Forbes

After shooting the Leica M6 for just over a year, including a decent period with it as my only film camera, I thought it was time to put pen to paper; or fingers to keys, as the...

2 July, 2017

Leica M9M Monochrom – First few shots and initial impressions

By Hamish Gill

I've fancied a Leica Monochrom since the day they were announced. It can't have been that long after that my mate Pete bought one and sent me a few DNG files to inspect - this d...

1 July, 2017

Sony A7Rii – Making it work for me – Take Perfect. Spoil it. Be happy – by Aivaras

By Aivaras

I really enjoyed Hamish's recent articles about the Sony A7RII, and the one regarding the never ending “film vs digital” debate. To me, these two articles felt as though they we...

25 June, 2017

Hasselblad Xpan-ii – A personal review – The dream that didn’t come true

By Hamish Gill

I had high hopes for the Hasselblad XPan-ii, I genuinely felt that it had the potential to provide me with a unique perspective, that it might challenge my framing, enable me to...

18 June, 2017

Jupiter-3 Review – Experiences with a flawed copy – Finding my Perfect Classic Sonnar – PT7

By Hamish Gill

Through this path to find the perfect classic Sonnar I'm fast coming to the conclusion that all I'm actually doing is simply collecting Sonnars. I have no less than 8 already, 9...

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