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13 November, 2025

5 Frames with Kodak Portra 800 Pushed to 3200 at Thin Air Exhibition

By Kristian Smith

13 November, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Portra 800, /

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18 May, 2015

‘Taab’ lens tab – Pre-production review / beta test report

By Hamish Gill

I do like a focusing tab on a rangefinder lens, I just find focusing slightly more intuitive somehow. Generally speaking I also find the lack of requirement to grip the focusing...

17 May, 2015

A pre-wedding shoot on a farm…

By Hamish Gill

I’ve been shooting weddings fairly sporadically for about 8-9 years now, I’ve always just shot them with the digital, but have been finding this increasingly uninspi...

12 May, 2015

Leica 50mm f/2.5 Summarit-M Review

By Hamish Gill

Along side – or at least attached to – the Leica M-A I recently borrowed from Leica UK was a 50mm f/2.5 Summarit-m. To be honest I’m not sure if they meant to ...

11 May, 2015

First Roll with my Leica M-A – Lndnwlk 3.0

By Hamish Gill

Saturday just gone, the 9th of May 2015, I did my best to put my election result woes to one side and make my way to London for a day out. I had two reasons to be there, the fir...

7 May, 2015

Election Day 2015 – The final push of the Worcester Labour Party

By Hamish Gill

Today – Election Day 2015 – I followed Joy Squires, Labour’s Parliamentary candidate for Worcester around for a large portion of the day. The idea was to docum...

4 May, 2015

Leica M3 DS Review – My final thoughts on the Double Stroke vs. Single Stroke

By Hamish Gill

Since writing my first Leica M3 post – and in fact actually not long after I published it – I found myself in the possession of a rather tatty Leica M3 double stroke...

2 May, 2015

Leica IIIc Review (Long-winded Edition) – By Filmosaur

By Andrej

When I first read about Hamish’s “Win My Leica” contest, I had little thought that I would end up writing the blog post that he mentioned in the contest guidelines. But ha...

29 April, 2015

Leica M2 Review – Unique in its own Subtle Way

By Hamish Gill

The M2 was Leica's answer to a requirement for a more affordable and more versatile M camera. In many regards it can be seen as a simplified Leica M3, but actually as far as the...

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