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27 June, 2026

Flags in Two Places

By Danilo Leonardi

27 June, 2026

/ Documentary Photography, Photography Philosophy, /

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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 feel a...

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 work of...

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...

8 January, 2015

Olympus AF-10 Super Review, or: Pushing the functional limits of a crap point & shoot.

By Hamish Gill

There isn’t a great deal to say about the Olympus AF-10 Super. It’s about as basic a camera as they come. Yet as I’ve expressed in a previous post, there is so...

5 January, 2015

Adjusting a Leica M3 to focus closer than 1 metre

By Hamish Gill

I bought an Leica M3 on ebay over Christmas. To be honest, when I came around from the excitement and realised that I had bought a Leica M3 on ebay, I did worry a little bit. My...

31 December, 2014

Christmas in colour – A few shots with the Voigtlander 50mm f/1.1

By Hamish Gill

Since I banged on at some length about how I would likely only ever use my Voigtlander 50mm 1.1 for its function, ie in low light, I thought I would contradict myself and shoot ...

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